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Welcome to the 'Railway Work, Life & Death' project, on British & Irish railway staff accidents pre-1939. Tweets by Mike Esbester. @RWLDproject.bsky.social
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Joined October 2017
Welcome to the 'Railway Work, Life & Death' project Twitter account! Check our expanding database of British & Irish railway worker accidents, covering the later 19th & early 20th centuries - all free! Currently over 48,000 cases, with more to come.
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A WEEK TODAY! A project talk in #Cardiff! Part of the Welsh Railways Research Circle talks series, all welcome - 2pm, Sat 15 Feb: 'Asking for trouble’? The Railway Work, Life & Death project & railway employee accidents in Wales before 1939
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RT @RWLDproject: NEW BLOG POST! A look at the amazing work the @UkNatArchives @UkNatArcRes volunteers are doing, transcribing railway work…
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RT @Elwick70: Very sad news There has been railway engineering at the Doncaster Works ‘The Plant’ since 1853. Many world famous locomotiv…
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RT @GrimArtGroup: May well need a tap 🤏 to fully appreciate. Such a clever style - glorious impasto worked with knife and brush reflecting…
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VERY positive session at Didcot Railway Centre, moving several collaborations significantly further on 😃👏 Some really great things coming, plus wonderful to be able to lend this 1936 GWR staff safety award for display. 😃 #Railway200 @railway200
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@railway200 @GWRHelp Delighted that this work is being supported by @portsmouthuni, through @UoPHumSS Faculty funding - it wouldn't be possible otherwise! 👏👍
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NEW BLOG POST! A look at the amazing work the @UkNatArchives @UkNatArcRes volunteers are doing, transcribing railway worker accident records ... ... & how you can get involved during #Railway200, to help with the finishing stages of 55,000 more records:
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Now passing Didcot ... going to be back here in 12 hours, to contribute to some public interpretation work focusing on safety and accidents!
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Always lovely to have nice boosts like this! 😃👏 And especially so having travelled on some of the Cambrian Line recently - a wonderful part of the world, with some spectacular scenery! 👇
Railway Work, Life & Death, is a project uncovering the lives & accidents of British & Irish railway staff (1880s-1939). Their latest blog explores #Aberystwyth railway workers in the @RWLDproject database of railway employee accidents. ➡️
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@CambrianLine @railway200 On our way to #Aberystwyth we 'live-tweeted' the journey as an #AccidentalJourney - plenty of Cambrian Line interest in it:
JOIN US on an #AccidentalJourney! We're travelling to #Aberystwyth, for the Transport for Wales #Railway200 launch! On our journey, we'll live-post some of the historic railway worker accidents found in the Railway Work, Life & Death project database. /1
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What's extra nice is that my Dad is coming along to help out too! 😀👍❤️ #TeamEffort #FamilyHistory #RailwayHistory
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RT @CambrianLine: ✨ Station Spotlight ✨ What memories do you have of Caersws railway station? #Railway200 #CambrianLine #RailwayHistory @…
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RT @HE_Maritime: Come and say hi to us at the @HistoricEngland stand at the IMASS Shipwreck Conference today.
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@ShildonCrier Brilliant! Thank you - will definitely be listening. Really pleased to see the focus of the episode - a tricky topic, but an important one.
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RT @RWLDproject: TWO WEEKS' TIME! Join us in #Cardiff for a project talk! Part of the Welsh Railways Research Circle series, open to all…
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