The following is a press release written by Railway Ancestors:

The 'Railway Work, Life & Death' project has just released a new dataset, featuring details of around 69,000 English and Welsh railway workers who had accidents between 1855 and 1929. The project looks at accidents to railway staff before 1939, transcribing and summarising details from railway records. With the existing data, the whole database now covers c.117,000 individuals, all transcribed by the project's excellent volunteers. 

The new records were originally kept by railway companies, and are now housed at The National Archives of the UK, with whom the project has been working on this release. The records tell us about what people were doing in their day-to-day work, the accidents they had, and the compensation, if any, they received.

The project is a joint initiative of the University of Portsmouth, the National Railway Museum and the Modern Records Centre at the University of Warwick, working with The National Archives and the RMT Union. It wants to see the information it's making available being used by you, in your research - it's all available free, from the project website. They're also keen to hear from you if you find someone you're researching, so please let them know.

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