We’re thrilled to say that we’re going to be in action again soon – and at one of our home bases, the National Railway Museum. We’re giving a presentation as part of the ‘Museums in Context & Partnership’ conference, organised by the ‘Railway Cultures’ project (a project which, as you can imagine, our project is […]
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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 […]
Hear us speak – or invite us in!
We’re keen to get out and spread the word about the project and accidents to railway workers in the past. So we’ve got a few things coming up at which you can find out more. Firstly there’s the Guild of One Name Studies day seminar, ‘Accidents will Happen’. It takes place on 24 February in […]
Explore your Archive week – what is wanted?
It’s all very well being aware there are institutions known as archives, which collect together, preserve and make available records from our past. Another piece of the puzzle is knowing what’s actually held in the archives – and The National Archives ‘Discovery’ catalogue is a great starting point for this. What happens after that is […]
Tweet us – @RWLDproject
We’ve been trying to get an update on the blog once a week since we made the spreadsheet available, drawing on the volunteers’ work and going into a bit more detail about some of the cases found in the reports. We’re going to keep on doing that, interspersed with updates and other things we’re doing […]
A trip to the ROC – worker safety 2017
One of the aims – and hopes – of the ‘Railway Work, Life & Death’ project was to see if we could contribute to a ‘useable past’: that is, not just creating a useful resource for people interested in the past, but also seeing if the current railway industry might be able to make use […]
Where are we now?
The spreadsheet has been available from the site for around 2 months now, so we thought it might be a good chance to give a brief update, thank you for your interest – and ask you for your feedback on what we’re doing. The website has had well over 3,000 views, and the spreadsheet has […]
The accident data is now available!
We’re delighted to say that the accident data is now available for you to use! You can find it on ‘The Accidents’ page, as a spreadsheet for you to download and search at your leisure. This represents the culmination of the work so far, including several months of hard effort from our superb team of […]
What next?
Over the last month there’s been some behind the scenes activity, as we work out our next steps. Some of that is practical – chiefly, how we make the details of the accidents available to you in the most convenient and easily searchable format. But some of it is also more long-term, like what we […]
1911-15: 3,911 individuals involved in accidents
Our superb volunteers have excelled themselves and have just finished cataloguing all the railway worker accidents investigated by the Railway Inspectors between 1 January 1911 and 30 June 1915, when investigations were halted due to the war. We were expecting a figure of around 3,000 – but the actual figure was 3,911 individual workers either […]
