In yesterday’s blog we outlined what we knew of two of the men involved in the Holywell Junction accident, Richard Jones and Alfred Jones. Today…
Yesterday’s blog looked at the accident at Holywell Junction on 1 September 1922. The next blog posts will look at the men involved. To be…
Alfred Henry Jones. Josiah Jones. Richard Jones. Daniel Roberts. Once again we start a blog post with the names of multiple men killed…
In today’s post, project volunteer and regular blog contributor Philip James looks at the (infamous?) Woodhead route, including the tunnels. He draws on an accident…
On the day of the centenary of the Wilmcote accident, we turn to the fourth and final family to be affected: the Booker family. This…
Yesterday we looked at William Bonehill and his family – another small family, though no less devasting an impact via the death of a husband…
Following on from yesterday’s post, looking at Lewis Washburn and his family, today we focus on another of the men who died in the 1922…
In yesterday’s post, we looked at the immediate circumstances of the accident, as seen through the investigation reports. Today we turn to what happened in…
Edward Sherwood. George Booker. Lewis Washburn. William Bonehill. On 24 March 1922, these four Great Western Railway track workers were killed by a steam engine…
Continuing our look at both disability in railway service and our forthcoming new dataset, this week our blog focuses on a case in which sight…