The Railway Work, Life & Death project database is full of cases which we can usefully evaluate with modern eyes. This isn’t straightforward of course…
This week, the Railway Work, Life & Death project is off to Aberystwyth, for the Transport for Wales Railway 200 launch! It’s a privilege to…
We’ve posted about accidents to women railway workers before (see here and here). Each time we’ve noted that there are relatively women in our data…
In last week’s blog, starting our contributions to Disability History Month, we considered where we might see learning disabilities in our project work. This week…
The pressures of railway work come up in myriad ways in our project database. Perhaps most commonly they appear in relation to time and trying…
On 14 October 2022, King’s Cross station in London will be 170 years old. To mark this anniversary, this week’s blog post looks at accidents…
Our project is made by everyone who has been involved – particularly the volunteer teams at the institutions involved doing the hard work of transcribing…
On 5 June 1914 Midland Railway fireman Iestyn Newman Nash, 27, was working his turn at Brynamman, Carmarthenshire. Moving some coaches to prepare his train,…
This month we’ve already highlighted a a number of cases in which workers had 2 accidents (see here and here). Before the month is out,…
One of the many advantages of our data is that it allows us to look at trends and different types of accidents over time. In…