Some days on the railways were worse than others – in total, and for particular grades of workers. The 19th of January was one which…
28 March was originally planned to host Dorset History Day – though obviously that’s now been postponed due to Coronavirus. However, as we’d written this…
The UK is currently undergoing a very warm spell, with today, 25 July, looking like it’s going to be the hottest day of the year…
In the latest of our Volunteers’ Week posts, project volunteer Cheryl Hunnisett, working with us at the Modern Records Centre, takes a look at one…
In this guest blog post, Steve Chown outlines the few details he has of his grandfather Jim’s accident on the railways around the time of…
After many years of concern, the 1902 Prevention of Accidents Rules introduced several measures to improve railway worker safety. One was the requirement to cover…
What place did the horse have in the steam railway? Perhaps surprisingly, a big one. Horses were essential for shunting wagons in yards and for…
Accidents of any sort aren’t particularly romantic, it has to be said, but given it’s St Valentine’s Day this week, we thought we’d have a…
Each case in our database is interesting (and often sad) in its own right. But one of the powerful things the database allows us to…
It seems perhaps trite to say that the First World War had an impact on virtually every aspect of life in Britain, but we can…