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Railway crash at Woodhouse

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Railway crash at Woodhouse
Sheffield_Woodhouse
1900-1919
H. Jasper Redfern

This image was originally part of the Tim Hale Photographic Collection. It was purchased at auction in September 2019 through donations from members of the public and a grant from the Graves Trust. Unidentified accident but could possibly be an accident which took place on 29 February 1908 when an Emigrant Special train from Liverpool to Grimsby, carrying around 300 passengers travelling at approximately 30 miles an hour crashed into the rear of a Mineral train as it was leaving East junction. Rowsley, the Mineral train goods guard was killed instantly, Fireman Clark was trapped under the engine. It took 2 hours to get him out and he sadly died the next day. The driver Walter Howell was badly injured and scalded. The driver of the Liverpool train Borland and the Fireman Jarred, escaped without injury, though their engine almost overturned. Two crashes had happened at the same place before, one on the 18th October 1872 and the other on 5 November 1849. Information from S Hedges. Photographer H Jasper Redfern was born 1871 and died 1928.

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