In this post, Kenneth G Williamson outlines the circumstances around the death of his Great Uncle in 1907. Whilst not strictly a worker accident –…
At the moment, Glasgow Queen St station is undergoing a major redevelopment, which has included exposing the Victorian glass frontage, concealed for the last 40…
We’ve blogged about the dangers of the permanent way before now, including one post about a particularly bad day in 1911. Sadly we have to…
In railway terms, Waterloo generally brings one thing to mind: the London mainline station, in our period the terminal point of the London & South…
The accidents and reports from which our database draws reveal much about all sorts of aspects of British and Irish society around the time of…
How far could workers control their own fates? In the 19th century and well into the 20th it was believed by many – certainly the…
28 April is Workers’ Memorial Day – an important occasion for us to stop and think about all those who have died, been injured or…
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 purpose of our project was to look at accidents involving railway workers, as seen through the reports produced by the Railway Inspectorate of the…
At best, we might think of runaway trains as belonging to the world of high drama, the culmination of an outlandish film plot; at worst,…