In the early 1890s a public scandal arose over the hours some railway employees worked. We might conclude that the press and MPs who took…
In the course of her research into the military railway aspects of the First World War, Sandra Gittins has already found a number of accidents…
Today we are fortunate in that the idea of work-life balance exists – if only as an ideal, in many cases. People interested in understanding…
In this guest post, National Railway Museum volunteer Philip James takes us back into an era outside project coverage, and to an accident not usually…
Earlier this year we put out a call on Twitter to see if anyone would like to write a guest blog post – this kind…
Around the turn of the twentieth century, the main railway trades unions started complaining about ‘speeding up’: the intensity of work being increased, whether by…
In previous posts we’ve extolled the virtues of our database as a means of making connections between accidents, whether by location, company, grade of employee,…
In this week’s post, National Railway Museum volunteer Philip James outlines more of what working on the project involves, and one case from our current…
People are absolutely central to our project. Thanks to the hard work of our volunteers, we’re able to get at the individuals behind the big…
Two weeks’ ago we looked at accidents to carriage and wagon staff who were keeping the railway network’s on-train toilets stocked. Provision was clearly made…