Details of the Railway Fatal Accident

PlaceParkgate & Rawmarsh, West Riding of Yorkshire, England
DateFriday, 19th November 1926, 11.13 a.m.
Railway CompanyLondon Midland & Scottish Railway
No. of fatalities9
Cause of accidentDerailment
DescriptionThe wagons of a coal train became derailed and the wreckage, together with a signal post, ripped the side of the York to Bristol Express passenger train.

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List of Fatalities

SurnameFirst NameAgeOccupationResidenceNotesGRO/SR/GRONI/GROIE Ref.
BAILEY Zachariah 50 Bookmaker 9 Willow Park, Pontefract 1926/Dec Rotherham 9c 733
BALL John Lewis 33 20, Chestnut Avenue, Queen's Road, Hull 1926/Dec Rotherham 9c 733
CANBY Bertie John Sharpe 59 Tobacconist 63 Market-place, Hull 1926/Dec Rotherham 9c 733
DAVIS Frederick William 47 Minister of religion 6 Trinity Terrace, Cheltenham 1926/Dec Rotherham 9c 733
DUTTON Jack 40 1926/Dec Rotherham 9c 733
NEWBOLT Arthur 34 Sergeant in King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry Stationed at Dover, on leave, who with his wife was about to visit friends at Sheffield. 1926/Dec Rotherham 9c 698
SCHOFIELD Archibald 48 Former alderman of Pontefract Kimberley House, Ackworth Road, Pontefract 1926/Dec Rotherham 9c 699
STATHAM Walther 36 Yardley Wood Road, Warstock, Birmingham 1926/Dec Rotherham 9c 699
WOOLMAN Harry 43 The Nurseries, Shirley, Birmingham 1926/Dec Rotherham 9c 699