Between 1-5 May 2025, the arrival of the railway at Guildford, Surrey, in 1845 is being marked with a temporary exhibition and a plaque on…
Something of a departure for our usual project focus, this week’s blog makes use of an accident report type we don’t usually have reason to…
Many of our blog posts focus on the thing central to our project: railway staff accidents. Increasingly we’re trying to think more broadly about the…
In this week’s post, guest author Rob Langham takes us back almost to birth of the railway age in England – a time when railways…
From time to time we might leave an appliance running whilst we’re doing something elsewhere – leaving the oven or kettle on, for example, when…
As part of Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine’s ‘Transcription Tuesday’, our project made available a set of records produced by the Amalgamated Society…
As we’re heading towards Halloween, it seems only fitting that we’ve a supernatural case, involving an accident to a railway worker, to bring to your…
How far could workers control their own fates? In the 19th century and well into the 20th it was believed by many – certainly the…
April 1914 saw 2 railway accidents which raise interesting issues about the differences between worker and passenger incidents – particularly as both involved multiple casualties.…
The recent snow has affected all of the UK’s transport modes to varying degrees, and the railways have been the subject of much discussion. We’ve…