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69,000 railway company records released!
It’s done! Today we release another c.69,000 records of railway staff accidents into the Railway Work, Life & Death project database – available here, for…
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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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Aberystwyth: a town, its railway staff & their accidents
This week, the Railway Work, Life & Death project is off to Aberystwyth, for the Transport for Wales Railway 200 launch! It’s a privilege to…
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Railway 200 – researching our railway pasts
By now, hopefully you’ll be aware of ‘Railway 200’ – a partnership campaign marking 200 years of railway travel since the Stockton & Darlington Railway…
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Family History 50s and collaboration
2024 marks the 50th anniversary of three organisations important to the Railway Work, Life & Death project. The Hampshire Genealogical Society (HGS), Leicestershire & Rutland…
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A year of trade union data
A year ago today we made public a huge new dataset – around 25,000 cases involving trade union members. They belonged to the Amalgamated Society…
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Ada Davies, gatekeeper
Continuing our Women’s History Month focus on where women feature in our project database, this week we’re turning to what remains a concern for the…
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Elizabeth Trevelyan, signalwoman
March is Women’s History Month, and once again is a good opportunity for our project to reflect on where women appear in our work. This…
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Joseph Simmons
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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Portsmouth Area Railway Pasts
Portsmouth Area Railway Pasts looked at railway staff in south-east Hampshire and west Sussex before 1939. It was part of a wider collaboration between the…