help finding locomotive picture.

[waratah]

hi, was wondering if you could help, my ancestor Robert Bugden (stoker) was killed in a railway accident i think 03/01/1853 on the oxford branch of the London and north western railway. i have since joined the railway in Australia and would like to honour my ancestor with a tattoo. i'm after a picture of the locomotive he would've been on at the time. thank you.

 

[GrimsbyPacer]

On the 3rd of January 1853, repairs were underway on the Wolvercote Tunnel near Oxford on the London and North Western Railway. A coal train collided with a small 3car passenger train killing 7 people. Both train's were yold they could go along the line.

Sorry that's all I can find now. But it was reported by The Times newspaper, they may have records of the accident???

Britain's Railway Disasters: Fatal Accidents from the 1830's to the Present Day By Michael Foley is my source. I can't see picture of loco number anywhere. Sorry.

 

[waratah]

Thanks for that.

 

[flymo]

The Railways Archive lists the accident but does not have any details.

 

[EM2]

There is a London and North Western Railway Society, I'm pretty sure they would have the answer.
http://www.lnwrs.org.uk/

 

[waratah]

thank you for the links ill check them out and hopefully dig up something. thanks again.