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Title: 187 years on Post by: grahame on August 02, 2017, 11:58:26 From The St Helens Reporter (http://www.sthelensreporter.co.uk/news/person-struck-by-train-at-rainhill-1-8681782)
Quote A person died at Rainhill train station yesterday morning after being struck by a train. Just before 6.30am on Tuesday, August 1, British Transport Police received calls relating to a person hit by a train. The death is not being treated as suspicious. Paramedics attended and the casualty was pronounced dead at the scene. Sadly, we still have deaths on the railway ... the first recorder being William Huskisson, while attending the opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, on 15 September 1830, by Stevenson's Rocket which had won the Rainhill trials. Title: Re: 187 years on Post by: Chris from Nailsea on August 05, 2017, 01:10:48 Yes. William Huskisson MP walked along the railway tracks to greet the Duke of Wellington when he (Huskisson) was struck by the other train.
Hence my current signature text. And, as an aside, I share my birth date - 11 March - with William Huskisson. :-X Title: Re: 187 years on Post by: TaplowGreen on August 05, 2017, 08:29:47 Yes. William Huskisson MP walked along the railway tracks to greet the Duke of Wellington when he (Huskisson) was struck by the other train. Hence my current signature text. And, as an aside, I share my birth date - 11 March - with William Huskisson. :-X That must be a great line for breaking those awkward silences at parties! :D This page is printed from the "Coffee Shop" forum at http://gwr.passenger.chat which is provided by a customer of Great Western Railway. Views expressed are those of the individual posters concerned. Visit www.gwr.com for the official Great Western Railway website. Please contact the administrators of this site if you feel that content provided contravenes our posting rules ( see http://railcustomer.info/1761 ). The forum is hosted by Well House Consultants - http://www.wellho.net |