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Railway accident at Sowerby Bridge [1903]

On Thursday, 22nd October 1903, Mr George E. Croysdale [aged 34] – a commercial traveller of Liverpool – was killed and several others were injured when a Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway express train travelling from Liverpool to Leeds crashed into a light engine which had been left on the line and forgotten in the Sowerby Bridge tunnel.

The injured were

William Stockle, Kirkdale, Liverpool, Driver of the express
William Tyldesley, Bootle, Stoker on the express
Nathaniel Bates, Sowerby Bridge
Samuel Lumb, Mytholmroyd
Arthur Roberts, Triangle
Elsie Rylands, Salterhebble, Halifax
W. L. Becke, Greenheys, Manchester
Alice Brailsford, Hulme Road, Bradford
W. H. Dayley, Moseley, Birmingham
H. Ellison, Cheetham, Manchester
P. Hoffman, Dudley
Mrs Hollins and baby, Urmston, Manchester
Frank Kay, Burton Street, Salford
Thomas J. Kelley, Aintree, Liverpool
Paul Luppike, Leadenhall Street, London
F. Matthews, Pendleton, Manchester
O. Partington, Rochdale
E. Patchett, Harpurhey, Manchester
H. Seeger, Withington, Manchester
J. N. Smith, Princess Street, Manchester
Gertrude Taylor, Manchester
Joseph Taylor, Urmston, Manchester
W. Wolstenholme, Manchester
E. H. Wood, Levenshulme

A jury returned a verdict of Accidental Death, adding that George Allon [the signalman], David Hallowell [the driver] and Austin Barker [the stoker] of the light engine could not be exonerated from blame but were not culpably responsible

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