The pressures of railway work come up in myriad ways in our project database. Perhaps most commonly they appear in relation to time and trying…
Some days on the railways were worse than others – in total, and for particular grades of workers. The 19th of January was one which…
How do we connect people & place in our database? Most of the time there are the obvious links: the cases our project is concerned…
At the moment, Glasgow Queen St station is undergoing a major redevelopment, which has included exposing the Victorian glass frontage, concealed for the last 40…
The accidents and reports from which our database draws reveal much about all sorts of aspects of British and Irish society around the time of…
The purpose of our project was to look at accidents involving railway workers, as seen through the reports produced by the Railway Inspectorate of the…
The recent snow has affected all of the UK’s transport modes to varying degrees, and the railways have been the subject of much discussion. We’ve…
One of the things we wanted the ‘Railway Work, Life & Death’ project to do was to make it easier for you to find out…
What the ‘Railway Work, Life & Death’ database shows really nicely – and importantly – is how numerous the ‘mundane’ accidents were: the cases that…
Around 20% of the accidents that were investigated by the railway inspectors and featured in this project were, tragically, fatalities. No question, then, that work…