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    Too deaf to work on the railway lines?

    As part of Disability History Month, our recent blog posts (here and here) have focused on physical disabilities caused by railway work. But what about…

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    ‘Slightly deaf’ at Forty Hill

    We’ve blogged in the past about disabled staff employed in railway service, including hearing loss, the subject of today’s post. Where it appears in the…

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    Stories from the Station

    Who were Frederick Fenney, Percy Masterman and George Way? Do the communities in which they lived and worked remember them, over 100 years after they…

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    Seeing disability in our database

    In last week’s Disability History Month blog post, we looked at a case which showed staff with hearing loss were employed by the railway companies.…

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    Work-caused disability – and death

    Last week’s blog looked at shunter Frederick Potter, and the way his railway work continued, in a different role, after his 1913 accident which led…

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    Dual fuel steam loco – with a bang

    We try to blog about fairly typical cases found in our project database – like our post two weeks’ ago, on a 1922 shunting accident…

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    ‘danger may arise in the employment of a man with defective sight’

    Continuing our look at both disability in railway service and our forthcoming new dataset, this week our blog focuses on a case in which sight…

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    John Rigby of Long Buckby Wharf

    In today’s guest blog post, Julie G takes us back to a place-based approach. She’s interested in Long Buckby Wharf, in Northants – a transport…

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    Disabilities in railway service

    Disability features in our project heavily. Mostly frequently it’s cases where accidents have caused disability (see here for some cases we’ve featured in the past).…

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    Robert White – Yarmouth

    This page is one of a series introducing railway staff who worked on the Isle of Wight’s railways before 1939. It’s a collaboration between the…