In this blog post we continue our occasional series produced by University of Portsmouth History degree students as part of their course. For their second-year…
In this blog post we start a series, running through the rest of the year, produced by University of Portsmouth History degree students as part…
Whilst 29 February is a ‘rare’ date, sadly accidents to railway workers on past leap days weren’t rare. As we discussed in our previous blog…
On 1 January 1923 a new era of British railway history began. Following state direction of the industry during and after the First World…
In today’s post, project volunteer and regular blog contributor Philip James looks at the (infamous?) Woodhead route, including the tunnels. He draws on an accident…
How do we connect people & place in our database? Most of the time there are the obvious links: the cases our project is concerned…
There are many cases in our database in which we see similar circumstances – and often similar outcomes: track workers hit by trains, shunters crushed…
Building a railway line was always a challenge – but at least in the early railway era, when Britain was relatively less urbanised, it was…
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…
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…