This week’s post comes from a guest contributor, Helen Ford, Manager of the Modern Records Centre at the University of Warwick – and a staunch supporter of our project. In the post Helen reflects upon the project, the topic of railway worker accidents and the sources at the Modern Records Centre, home to all sorts […]
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Fatal Accident at Steele Road Station
By Kenneth G Williamson on September 10, 2018 in Blog, Family History, Guest contribution, Linking sources
In this post, Kenneth G Williamson outlines the circumstances around the death of his Great Uncle in 1907. Whilst not strictly a worker accident – in the sense that his Great Uncle was only 9 at the time of his death, & not employed on the railways – it happened in the railway workplace, and […]
Different perspectives on our project
Today’s post is a little different to usual – though hopefully still relevant and interesting to our readers. Typically we’ve taken a case or two from the project database and explored it in some detail, pulling out key points and issues that were perhaps underlying the accident but not brought to the fore in the […]
Watch the ankles – multiple cases 2
In a previous post, we focused on labourer Joseph Brown of the Great Eastern Railway, one of a select few – 15 – who feature in our database as having two accidents. This week we see the anniversary of the 2nd accident of another member of this group: shunter Tom Oliver. Like Brown, who worked […]
Joining the dots: how our project links accidents, pt 1 – or, the terrible death of a porter
One of the things we wanted the ‘Railway Work, Life & Death’ project to do was to make it easier for you to find out about railway worker accidents. Hopefully you’ll agree that the project database has done this in its own right. But one huge strength is that it also makes it easier to […]
