In a week’s time, on Christmas Day, the UK’s rail network will be a lot quieter than usual. There won’t be any passenger services running.…
Happy International Women’s Day 2021! This seems like a good moment to look forward to some of the data we’re working on behind the scenes,…
On 1 January 1923 a new era of British railway history began. Following state direction of the industry during and after the First World…
In our last post, we used our database of accidents to British and Irish railway staff to look at a few cases occurring immediately around…
In last week’s Disability History Month blog post, we looked at a case which showed staff with hearing loss were employed by the railway companies.…
On 14 October 2022, King’s Cross station in London will be 170 years old. To mark this anniversary, this week’s blog post looks at accidents…
There are many unexpected stories in our project database. Indeed, that’s one of the many excellent things it brings: it allows us to see how…
We’ve blogged in the past about disabled staff employed in railway service, including hearing loss, the subject of today’s post. Where it appears in the…
In this week’s post, from guest author Gordon Dudman, some of the legal issues raised by railway accidents come to light. These weren’t, however, arcane…
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).…