The majority of this post was contributed by one of our anonymous volunteers, who had been doing the fiddly but essential job of going over…
Whilst as a project the records we’re making available are focused on Britain and Ireland, we’re interested in how railway safety has played out in…
As part of Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine’s ‘Transcription Tuesday’ earlier this year, our project made available a set of records produced…
Earlier this week we launched our third set of data about accidents to railway staff (see here). It comes from a record of legal cases…
From Tralee and Belfast to Inverness, and Wrexham to Ashford and Penzance, our newest data release shows the impact of staff railway accidents in the…
In the course of looking for something else in our database of British and Irish railway worker accidents, I recently stumbled across a fascinating case…
In this guest post, former railway worker and now family historian Martin O’Donnell looks at one surprising accident he found in his family past. It…