As guest author Alexandra Foulds notes, this post came about by a chance connection on Twitter – fortunately, though the subject matter is, perhaps needless…
On 5 June 1914 Midland Railway fireman Iestyn Newman Nash, 27, was working his turn at Brynamman, Carmarthenshire. Moving some coaches to prepare his train,…
We’re delighted to have received this timely guest post from long-time project friend and support Steve Jackson. It’s timely because, as Steve notes, it meshes…
In January 2021 we received a comment on one of our blog posts. Sid Harbour had contacted us, saying ‘I have just discovered your website.…
This post was contributed by one of our anonymous volunteers, who has been doing the fiddly but essential job of going over the data and…
Continuing our Disability History Month exploration of the new Great Eastern Railway (GER) data (see last week’s post, here), this week we’re focusing on a…
In this guest post Norman Gamble, the Archivist of the Irish Railway Record Society (IRRS), introduces the Society and its archives – including the great…
We were delighted to receive an email from this week’s guest author, Derek Savage, offering further information on one of the more intriguing cases from…
In the course of looking for something else in our database of British and Irish railway worker accidents, I recently stumbled across a fascinating case…
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,…