The International Labour Organization estimates that – each year – around 2.3 million people around the world die as a result of workplace accidents or…
Last week we released our new dataset – 25,000 records of support offered by the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants (ASRS)/ National Union of Railwaymen…
On 1 January 1923 a new era of British railway history began. Following state direction of the industry during and after the First World…
Every so often someone gets in touch with us to say they’ve found an ancestor in the project database. Despite the sad nature of the…
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…
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…
This week we’re taking a sneak preview at some of the data that will be coming into the project, hopefully later this year. It comes…
On 5 June 1914 Midland Railway fireman Iestyn Newman Nash, 27, was working his turn at Brynamman, Carmarthenshire. Moving some coaches to prepare his train,…