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…
We’ve already blogged about a couple of cases of multiple accidents: when our database has shown a worker had more than one accident. We’ve considered…
We’ve blogged about the dangers of the permanent way before now, including one post about a particularly bad day in 1911. Sadly we have to…
We’re delighted to be able to say that we’re extending the project! We’ve blogged in the past about the impact of accidents and trying to…
In railway terms, Waterloo generally brings one thing to mind: the London mainline station, in our period the terminal point of the London & South…
In previous posts we’ve extolled the virtues of our database as a means of making connections between accidents, whether by location, company, grade of employee,…
So far we’ve largely confined ourselves to the cases found in our database, to give you more detail on a small – but increasing –…
There are many cases in our database in which we see similar circumstances – and often similar outcomes: track workers hit by trains, shunters crushed…
In a previous post, we focused on labourer Joseph Brown of the Great Eastern Railway, one of a select few – 15 – who feature…
Yesterday our project Twitter feed (@RWLDproject) tweeted a case in which a worker attempted to apply a vacuum brake with a coupling pole. This caused…