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Accidents and the ordinary (railway)women of the past
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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Happy (Belated) Birthday, Portsmouth!
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…
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Susan Longman & Charlotte Atherton – Britain’s first female railway track workers?
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…
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Margaret Hamer – heroic actions with a lasting impact
In the course of researching our previous blog post, looking at disabled railway workers in our most recent Railway Work, Life & Death project data…
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Disabled railway workers in our new 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…
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Elsie Knapp – Newport
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…
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Arthur Hollis
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…
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Stoke-on-Trent’s railway staff
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…
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James Pearce
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…
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Alfred McBride
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…