In our fourth Volunteers’ Week blog post, National Railway Museum volunteer Philip James outlines some of what working on the project involves, and one case…
In the latest of our Volunteers’ Week posts, project volunteer Cheryl Hunnisett, working with us at the Modern Records Centre, takes a look at one…
Recently in my household, we had an object lesson in how government regulations have helped improve our health and wellbeing – via one (big) pane…
In the past we’ve featured cases from our database involving railway employees who were what we’d now understand as children: R Kennedy, for example, who…
Perhaps surprisingly, the question of literacy doesn’t seem to come up in the worker accident reports too frequently. It appears as though in most cases…
We’ve featured a burns case in the past – in that instance, it was electrical burns. But often lumped together with burns are scalds, something…
In past blog posts we’ve discussed some of the cases of workers known to have had more than one accident – a theme to which…
In a timely guest post, Sandra Gittins draws on some of her research into railway workers on the Western Front of the First World War…
We’re going beyond the edges of the project in this post, to look at a passenger crash and its aftermath. This week it’s the anniversary…
After many years of concern, the 1902 Prevention of Accidents Rules introduced several measures to improve railway worker safety. One was the requirement to cover…