Building a railway line was always a challenge – but at least in the early railway era, when Britain was relatively less urbanised, it was…
In this guest post, Helena Wojtczak explores fatal accidents to women working on and living around the railway, particularly those women either paid and employed…
Just over a month ago, we released our third dataset – the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants (ASRS) legal book, covering 1901-1905. It contains over…
In this post, Chris Jolliffe, one of the project volunteers based at the Modern Records Centre at the University of Warwick and transcribing trade union…
In this post, guest contributor Sandra Gittins brings us back to the First World War, when accidents to railway staff didn’t stop. She’s already blogged…
… and a case from our new data release, for good measure! As we start 2020 it seems like a good time to look…
As part of Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine’s ‘Transcription Tuesday’ earlier this year, our project made available a set of records produced…
From Tralee and Belfast to Inverness, and Wrexham to Ashford and Penzance, our newest data release shows the impact of staff railway accidents in the…
UPDATED 17/12/2019 – The Transcription Tuesday data is now available! Find out more here. Although Transcription Tuesday is still a little way off,…
In this guest post, former railway worker and now family historian Martin O’Donnell looks at one surprising accident he found in his family past. It…