Looking for a railway worker in the UK?


28th July 2022
By Christine Harris
We've added a new genie link today to the website for the Railway Work, Life & Death project.

Today, we've added a new genie link to the website for
the Railway Work, Life & Death project

It's a joint initiative between the University of Portsmouth, the National Railway Museum (NRM) and the Modern Records Centre at the University of Warwick (MRC).  They are also working with other institutions including The National Archives of the UK.

The project is making it easier to find out about railway worker accidents in Britain and Ireland from the late 1880s to 1939 by providing 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.

To access the site go to Genie Links and check the listings under either Occupations or United Kingdom.

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