Our database is for the most part representative of the accidents incurred by British and Irish railway workers around the time of the First World…
For some staff, getting to or from work was a matter of walking. For permanent way staff, who might be working on track many miles…
All of the cases we’re cataloguing in our project database are sad, as at the very least they represent pain having been inflicted. Often they…
The status of the north east as a producer of coal in the 19th and 20th centuries is well-known; it was one of the important…
The lot of the Railway Inspector wasn’t always a happy one. Finding out what happened in an accident was never going to be an easy…
Our project has focused on accidents to railway workers, rather than passengers, as numerically far more workers were killed or injured on the railways and…
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…
Perhaps surprisingly, the question of literacy doesn’t seem to come up in the worker accident reports too frequently. It appears as though in most cases…
We’re going beyond the edges of the project in this post, to look at a passenger crash and its aftermath. This week it’s the anniversary…
We’ve blogged about the dangers of the permanent way before now, including one post about a particularly bad day in 1911. Sadly we have to…