Recent content by Red Sparrow

I think I can now state with a high degree of certainty that D215 was the offending Class 40 . Here are some screen grabs from a British Movietone news report into the crash . They show D215 being pushed away from the accident by a steam train .

The accident report states that coach 8 was pushed up over coach 7 so surely that would make the loco on the right of the photo the likely suspect or have I missed something glaringly obvious ?

Found this in the aforementioned Railway Magazine from 2014

Many thanks Bovverboy , I will try and obtain an official copy of the photo after payday !

I have located an online article from the Warrington Guardian dated 6th April 1999 . It is a letter mostly relating to the 1962 Boxing Day crash that is another current thread on this site. In it is stated that the Driver of the train that crashed then was also the Driver of the train when the...

Here is an interesting thing ! If you Google Minshull Vernon Crash Shutterstock you will find a photo of the wrecked carriages . If you look to the right of the photo you can see the front of a loco . If you assume that is the loco involved in the accident it clearly isn't D326 , it looks much...

Trackman , many thanks . I have read both reports and they both just state the fact that a man was electrocuted , interestingly they also refer to D326 being the loco involved in the 1962 Boxing day accident that I am also researching and which is now subject to some dispute. I did however come...

I have looked at the newspaper reports for the incident on the 19th August 1964. They report that the man was standing on a catwalk on top of a petrol tanker in the sidings at Tilbury Riverside. The references to the death involving D326 state that the secondman had opened the doors above the...

Trackman , many thanks , whereabouts did you find that ? I’ll investigate it further . Kind regards Red

That is a really interesting insight into the process, many thanks for sharing it .

Hi , yes , I have the magazine but it doesn’t give any information over and above the standard claim repeated in various other articles and books . I’m trying to find a report of the event itself rather than one that just refers to it.

I have spent the last few weeks trying to find out if there is any truth to the story that in August 1964 a secondman was electrocuted by coming into contact with overhead wires whilst cleaning the windows of Class 40 D326. I have searched local papers of the time and can find nothing that...

DelW and IronDuke , good points , well made . Just reading the reports in the 1962 newspapers makes you realise how different life was even 60 years ago never mind going back to the mid 40's.

Thank you , do you recall if it was common practice to exclude the loco numbers from reports ?

Many thanks for clarifying, I’ll keep an eye out for a copy of that.