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 to get work done. Sometimes those pressures are seasonal – and in that light, the challenges of Christmas working make an appearance. On 22 December 1910, goods porter Sidney […]
Archive | December, 2022
Seeing disability in our database
By Mike Esbester on December 12, 2022 in Accident aftermath, Accident reports, Blog, Disability, Disability History Month
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. Sometimes this was in roles we wouldn’t expect to find them – in which hearing might have had important implications for safety. In our final Disability History Month post for […]
Too deaf to work on the railway lines?
By Mike Esbester on December 5, 2022 in Accident reports, Blog, Disability, Disability History Month, Health
As part of Disability History Month, our recent blog posts (here and here) have focused on physical disabilities caused by railway work. But what about railway workers who might have had a life-long disability, or a condition which grew progressively worse over time? This might include hearing loss, a topic that’s been relevant in a […]
