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…
There are many unexpected stories in our project database. Indeed, that’s one of the many excellent things it brings: it allows us to see how…
This week we have another guest post from Philip James, part of the NRM team and our most prolific blog contributor – read his other…
In this guest post, National Railway Museum volunteer Philip James looks back at some big events in the recent past. He gives a personal perspective…
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…
Our project is documenting the many risks incidental to railway working – including at times animal dangers. We’ll be coming back to the more usual…
As guest author Alexandra Foulds notes, this post came about by a chance connection on Twitter – fortunately, though the subject matter is, perhaps needless…
Some days on the railways were worse than others – in total, and for particular grades of workers. The 19th of January was one which…
In this guest post, former railway worker and now family historian Martin O’Donnell looks at one surprising accident he found in his family past. It…
In our fourth Volunteers’ Week blog post, National Railway Museum volunteer Philip James outlines some of what working on the project involves, and one case…