UPDATED 17/12/2019 – The Transcription Tuesday data is now available! Find out more here. Continuing the build up to next week’s Transcription Tuesday, we’ve…
UPDATED 17/12/2019 – The Transcription Tuesday data is now available! Find out more here. Although Transcription Tuesday is still a little way off,…
UPDATED 17/12/2019 – The Transcription Tuesday data is now available! Find out more here. Ahead of tomorrow’s Transcription Tuesday, which we hope you’ll join in…
Last year we blogged about some of the railway staff who were injured at work and then went on to fight and die in the…
One of the virtues of our database is that we can cross-reference cases. By doing so, we’ve identified a number of instances in which a…
Most of the cases in our database are fairly standard – certainly in terms of being above ground and referring to ‘standard gauge’ track (the…
How did railway employees learn their craft in the late 19th century and on into the 20th? For most grades it was by learning on…
As part of Explore your Archive week (see yesterday’s post here) we’re going to be bringing you a couple of cases taken from the Railway…
As well as this being ‘Explore your Archive’ week (see yesterday’s post here), it’s also Road Safety Week, run by the charity Brake. Road accidents…
We return to one of the great things about our database for today’s blog post: the way it makes it possible to search the accident…