March is Women’s History Month – and so an ideal opportunity for us to return to the women who have so far appeared in our…
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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…
A rather hasty and belated blog post, this week – was so waylaid with things that it wasn’t possible to write it sooner. We had…
Until March 2025, we’d been quite confident in saying that in Britain, women didn’t work maintaining railway tracks until the Second World War. That’s certainly…
In the course of researching our previous blog post, looking at disabled railway workers in our most recent Railway Work, Life & Death project data…
Earlier this year, our new data release added around 69,000 cases to the Railway Work, Life & Death project database of accidents to British and…
This page is one of a series introducing railway staff who worked in and around Stoke-on-Trent before 1939. They’ve been researched as part of the…
Railways in & around Stoke-on-Trent – and their workers As part of 2025’s Railway 200, we’ve worked with New Vic Borderlines, Foxfield Railway and North…
This page is one of a series introducing railway staff who worked on the south coast of England before 1939. They’ve been researched as part…
This page is one of a series introducing railway staff who worked on the south coast of England before 1939. They’ve been researched as part…