Working on the railways 100 years ago was incredibly dangerous, with hundreds killed and tens of thousands injured each year. Portsmouth University’s ‘Railway Work, Life & Death’ project is an important new resource for anyone researching railway history, family history, labour history and allied topics.
The Railway, Work, Life & Death project can be found here.
It now contains a downloadable/searchable database of railway worker accidents in Britain and Ireland from the later 19th century until the Second World War. There are over 4,500 records available, and the plan is to go back to the 1880s and include an additional 60,000 records in due course.