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 post, guest author Jane Jarrett outlines her Grandfather’s life and career, including the accident that cost him his arm and changed his life…
This guest post breaks new ground for the project – by focusing on the experiences of railway staff, written in their own words. As he…
In this week’s post, from guest author Gordon Dudman, some of the legal issues raised by railway accidents come to light. These weren’t, however, arcane…
In this guest post, NRM project volunteer Arthur Moore returns to consider some of the cases he’s encountered when transcribing state accident investigations for the…
In her research, Sandra Gittins has already turned up a couple of cases of accidents to railway staff serving overseas during World War One –…
In today’s post, project volunteer and by-now regular blogger Philip James has a look at a number of accidents reported in a single issue of…
As guest author Alexandra Foulds notes, this post came about by a chance connection on Twitter – fortunately, though the subject matter is, perhaps needless…
Last year the author of this guest post, Tom Hall, got in touch with us. Having found out about the project, he wanted to let…
In this week’s post, project volunter Philip James looks at some of the challenges of working with large quantites of data across a team of…