In our previous post in this series, we looked at accidents in our database from the newly-Grouped companies over the course of 1923. There’s no…
On 1 January 1923 a new era of British railway history began. Following state direction of the industry during and after the First World…
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…
Continuing our look at the cases found in our new data release, this week we have the 1922 accident to Frederick James Webb. In many…
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…
It seems every aspect of railway working was (is?) full of arcane practices. Shunting – moving wagons and carriages around to get them into the…
We started our posts this month with another 2 cases of workers having 2 accidents each, with the promise (threat?) of more multiple accidents to…
In this guest post, Linda Whitaker has kindly written up the death of one of her ancestors, Jonathan Rogers. His accident was one of the…
Two weeks’ ago we looked at accidents to carriage and wagon staff who were keeping the railway network’s on-train toilets stocked. Provision was clearly made…