We might tend to question the extent to which many of the working classes – for it is the working classes who are largely the…
So far our project has focused on what we’d understand as ‘mainline’ railways. That’s been a product of the sources available to us. It means…
On 5 June 1914 Midland Railway fireman Iestyn Newman Nash, 27, was working his turn at Brynamman, Carmarthenshire. Moving some coaches to prepare his train,…
Some days on the railways were worse than others – in total, and for particular grades of workers. The 19th of January was one which…
Last year the author of this guest post, Tom Hall, got in touch with us. Having found out about the project, he wanted to let…
Our database is for the most part representative of the accidents incurred by British and Irish railway workers around the time of the First World…
Disability features in our project heavily. Mostly frequently it’s cases where accidents have caused disability (see here for some cases we’ve featured in the past).…
In this week’s post, guest author Rob Langham takes us back almost to birth of the railway age in England – a time when railways…
Wednesday marks the start of 2020’s Disability History Month, something that our project speaks closely too, given the large numbers of railway staff who were…
This week we have a guest post from Philip James, looking at another accident he transcribed as part of his role as an NRM project…