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Photos 1. and 2. below started as queries about railway accidents, thought to have taken place in Edinburgh or Leith. In fact, the locations turned out to be elsewhere in Scotland. |
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Question 1 |
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ANSWER Smeaton Colliery,
Dalkeith Thanks to:
John Stevenson |
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Question 2 |
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ANSWER No. It's Tayport, Fife, Scotland. Thanks to:
Walter Lyle Hume |
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Question 3 |
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Musselburgh There was an accident on New Year's Day 1941, when a goods train crashed through the buffers at Musselburgh Station. Alan Grieve emailed me asking: "Does anyone have information about the accident or a copy of the report, if there was one produced?" Alan Grieve Minehead, Somerset England: January23, 2009 |
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Question 4 |
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Leith Walk Douglas Robertson wrote: "My Great Uncle, John Robertson, was killed on January 9, 1945 when he was run over by a train at a Railway Goods Station in Leith Walk. I've found his death certificate on 'Scotland's People' and this has filled in some gaps, but there still persists the fact that my own family recollections tell me that he may have been involved in an incident. He was a Railway Constable at the time. His younger brother, Alexander was also also killed in the same way, albeit at a different time, within a few years of John's accident." Question Can anybody point me to any archive that I could possibly research?" Douglas Robertson: October 17, 2010 |
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Advice for Douglas If you can suggest where Douglas might be able to do any further research into these accidents, please email me, than I'll pass on your message to him. Thank you. - Peter Stubbs, October 17, 2010 |
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Early Accident |
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Engraving This is an illustration from the London Illustrated News on July 21, 1860 |
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