AJC
Western Thunderer
Something that I've given a little help with over recent months - because, for my sins, in my day job I am a university historian - is this project hosted by the University of Portsmouth but in conjunction with (what was called) the NRM and the University of Warwick. This is the Railway Work, Life and Death project, led by Mike Esbester which aims to make it easier to find out about railway worker accidents in Britain and Ireland from the late 1880s to 1939. They aim to provide data about who was involved, what they were doing on the railways, what happened to them and why. Although today most people don’t realise it, working on the railways 100 years ago was incredibly dangerous, with hundreds killed and tens of thousands injured each year.
What We're Doing - Railway Work, Life & Death
So in other words, this is about the everyday life (and occasionally, and unfortunately, death) of the railway drawing from the paper records of these cases from across England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland. What these sources can do is to reveal ways of working and the value placed on employees which as well as being generally interesting has some import for us modellers.
The dataset, an Excel file can be found here: The Accidents - Railway Work, Life & Death
Mike is very receptive to feedback and railway-specific gen so I'm sure would welcome any comments and thoughts you might have. You can get hold of him via Twitter if you do that sort of thing, or by email: OldRailwayAccidents (@RWLDproject) on Twitter
You might also enjoy the associated online exhibition with the NRM: Caution! Railway safety since 1913 | National Railway Museum
Adam
What We're Doing - Railway Work, Life & Death
So in other words, this is about the everyday life (and occasionally, and unfortunately, death) of the railway drawing from the paper records of these cases from across England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland. What these sources can do is to reveal ways of working and the value placed on employees which as well as being generally interesting has some import for us modellers.
The dataset, an Excel file can be found here: The Accidents - Railway Work, Life & Death
Mike is very receptive to feedback and railway-specific gen so I'm sure would welcome any comments and thoughts you might have. You can get hold of him via Twitter if you do that sort of thing, or by email: OldRailwayAccidents (@RWLDproject) on Twitter
You might also enjoy the associated online exhibition with the NRM: Caution! Railway safety since 1913 | National Railway Museum
Adam
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