It’s not often that the kinds of accidents which feature in the Railway Work, Life & Death project and its database were described as a…
Very often the Railway Work, Life & Death project has focused on ‘front-line’, operational staff, who kept the trains moving. They’ve been clustered in roles…
This summer, we’ll be introducing a vast run of records to the Railway Work, Life & Death project database of accidents to British and Irish…
Since 2018, a team of brilliant volunteers has been working at The National Archives of the UK. They’ve been transcribing the accident records produced by…
Marking both Women’s History Month and St David’s Day, today’s blog post focuses on one place we’re going to find Welsh railwaywomen in the Railway…
Around two weeks’ ago, we put out a request on our Twitter account to find out more about ‘Cricpante Rego’ – and as well as…
Last week we went to Aberystwyth, for the launch of Transport for Wales ‘Railway 200’ programme. The launch was excellent, bringing together the current industry,…
The previous four blog posts in this series, the most recent of which is here, have focused on the past. Today’s post links past and…
2024’s Disability History Month theme is ‘Disability livelihood and employment’. This is directly relevant to the Railway Work, Life & Death project. As many of…
On 10 November 1840, a steam locomotive named ‘Surprise’ exploded in Bromsgrove. It killed its crew, Joseph Rutherford and Thomas Scaife. The incident might perhaps…