Column 1 date(s)

Transcriber observations

Railway Company

Type of casualty

ASRS Representative

Amount obtained

Additional comment

North Eastern Railway

Accidential Death

Shaw and Moody (Sec)

Bennett was held largely to blame for an accident: see http://www.railwaysarchive.co.uk/documents/BoT_BirminghamNewStreet1901.pdf

Great Northern Railway

Wages in leiu of notice

A Willey £2-18-6 and £1-12-0 GH costs

??? Branch Treasurer

Meyrick and Davie

£4-04-0

North Eastern Railway

Donald Ostell and Lightfoot

£3-10-0 Doubtful case for compensation.

Note: Death was reported in Carlisle on 04/05/1901

Mexborough No 2

would not clain for fear of offending his employers

Peterborough No 1

Great Northern Railway

Hornsey Goods yard

Accidental death

Batten and Whitsea

London and North Western Railway

Prosecuted for obstruction

Accidental death

Location, thought to be Broad Oaks, former freight sidings in the eastern side of Sheffield

Wages in leiu of notice

Obtained with out going to court

Clegg and Sons £10-6-0

London and North Western Railway

Basford Hall Siding Crewe

head bruised and crushed inwards

Register has been endoresed "Turned into a dead end"

Question of charge of orphan

Jones and Middleton £2-2-6

Clapham Junction

London and South Western Railway

Extensive LB&SCR staff Records show no Waites working in the London area; assumed LS&WR. No Civilian death records found for a Waites in the Surrey/Middlesex areas.

Great Southern and Western Railway

Accidentally crushed by a railway engine owing to the place being insufficently lighted they also considered he was overworked

PS Connolly £3-3-3 and £3-2-8 Gaffrey and Mr Gleeson for compensation

North Eastern Railway

Wages in lieu of notice

Great Northern Railway

company paid amount due without action

Charge of assault

Papers filed 31/12/1901

Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway

Hemsworth Colliery siding

09/1901 & 12/1901

Great Western Railway

Park Junction Newport

torn tendons and sinews from knee caps

per week and settled for £330.00

London and North Western Railway

as at present advised do not propose to order inquiry

Company stopped payment. took up with Gibbs after considerable negotiating and medical exaninations Gibbs gave instructions for half wages and be continued

Half wages as a concession

North Eastern Railway

Drypool Goods Sation

Austin (Solicitor) Hull

Austin Hull £1-1-0

relatives satisfied with what NE company had done and would not let society deal with compensation

London and North Western Railway

action to recover overtime

amount claimes (14/2)paid into court

action to recover for time suspended

Co paid amount claimed 25/-

P and B £1-1-10 and 3/6

Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway

Chatham Mills, Hulme Street, Manachester

Chorlton £2-4-2 minus 10/6 recovered costs £1-13-8

Great Western Railway

charged with stealing

11 months imprisonment

St Helens Central

London and North Western Railway

Masseys Crossing

double fracture of left ankle

St Pancras Goods Yard

Metropolitan Borough of St Pancras

Winchester would not send a proper legal claim

London, Brighton and South Coast Railway

No BoT Inquiry held during this period

Wolverhampton 1

Great Western Railway

Accidential Death

"Accidental" Jury censured Companies servants also company

Wilcocks Taylor £5-4-10

Wolverhampton 3

Accidental death No blame attached to anyone

represented at inquest B Cartwright

Hull and Barnsley Railway

Alexandra Docks Hull

wounds on left hip

Rideal £8-5-5 and £3-3-0 recovered leaves £5-2-5

Original documented is marked "doubtful case"

Great Central Railway

No details recorded in the original copy of the register

North British Railway

"Knocked down and run over"

Great Western Railway

EJ Ames & Son (Sol.)

Ames & Son £1-12-6

Ballast Trains Foreman

London and North Western Railway

Mr Meart & Chorlton

Not a staff accident. The BoT Report criticised Thayre for failing to keep a proper observation

North Eastern Railway

Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway

Injured at warehouse off Co's premises. Messrs Chorlton consulted by Branch and advised no claim.

City of Manchester Corporation

Dismissed for fighting.

09/1902 and 12/1902

North Eastern Railway

Cliffhouse Branch

"Cliff House Branch" believed to be a reference the Seaham Harbour Branch

No other details in the original register entry

Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway

Blackburn goods yard

Right arm amputated

Great Northern Railway

Wages in lieu of notice

Accidential Death

London and North Western Railway

Wages in lieu of notice

No legal charges. 5/- to Branch Sectary for fares and time lost

London and North Western Railway

Bletchley Loco Shed

Fracture ribs and spine and other internal injuries

Swansea Harbour Trust

Accidential Death

Pickwick [Sec] and unnamed solicitor

This Inquest attended by an official from the District Inspector of Factories Office and respentations made to the Trust with reference to the bad lighting.

Andrew and Thompson £1-1-0

Great Western Railway

Per week and costs

Company took case to court of appeal and won

Wages in lieu of notice

North Eastern Railway

Do not intend to order inquiry

Likely marker for a member likely to be called to give evidenace to a BoT Public Enquiry

03/1902 and 12/1902

Newton Heath No 1

Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway

Heel lost in rail check. Leg amputated

£7-12-4½ minus £3-3-0 Recovered cost. Total: £4-9-4½. £1-15-10 Dec 1902. Light work at 24/- per week

Cambrian Railway

Marchwiel [spelt Marchiviel]

Paid full wages and promised light employment. Member would not claim.

South Eastern and Chatham Railway

Barrow in Furness

per week. Light work total £-/23/0

03/1902 & 06/1902

Yardman and Shunter

Brecon and Merthyr Tydfil Junction Railway

Commenced work on Apr 5 1902

Recovered from Bus Company

Represented at Inquest

J Bakers' Boot Factory

Fell down lift opening

Foreman in Grain Room

London and North Western Railway & L and YJT

Case dropped, only off short time

North British Railway

Gartness Junction

Struck by overhead bridge

Case lost, see papers

North British Railway

Lauchars Junction

Loss of right arm and injury to back

Great Northern Railway

E L Manning Solicitor

South Eastern Railway

Re: S E Sick Fund

See shorthand notes

South Eastern and Chatham Railway

BoT Inquiry not available. Rear end collison in Fog. No staff injuries reported. Assum was for representation at hearings?

L &WR ? Pension and Provident Society

This and Case 612 appear to be linked as a means of possibly sharing the finacial burdon with privident friendly socities?

Great Western Railway

Left arm amputated

Wrongful reduction

Member decided not to proceed

"LD & EC" not a recognised abbreviation; Lincoln Central Would have been GNR and Lincoln St Marks would have been MR

Preston and Wyre Joint Railway

Wages in lieu of notice

Papers filed 31/12/1902

North British Railway

Smeaton Junction

Off 16 weeks and resumed former duties

Clapham Junction

Carriage Examiner

Metropolitan Borough of Chelsea

Deceased met his death by hoist being altered

G Bell & Co £7/4/9

London and North Western Railway

Telegraphic labourer

London and South West Railway

Metropolitan Borough of Battersea

Passenger Guard

North Eastern and Great Northern Railways Joint

From NER and 15/- from GNR

Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway

Wilson, Wigan £1-1-0 £4-8

North Eastern Railway

Drypool Goods Yard, Hall

Laverick, Sons and Wray (Sol)

Company paid funeral expenses

North Eastern Railway

Drifield Goods Warehouse

Between wagon and pillar

Only slightly injured

Only slightly injured

Great Northern Railway

Wrenthorpe, found dead in his van

A Willey Sol and Mr Mear

Found dead in his break van without injury, probably from a sudden attack of angina pectoris.

Death by Natural Causes; not an accident within the meaning of the Act

Mk Perth OZ/GJD

Great Central Railway

Metropolitan Borough of Wandsworth

Injury Left ankle etc

Recovered from Bus propriator

Nil, only off nine days.

Great Northern Railway

Loco Shed, Hitchin

Great Western Railway

Wages in lieu of notice

Driver (non member of L and Y)

Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway

Goole engine shed

Hind, Son and Burniston

"AD". No inquiry held.

Hind, Son and Burniston £1.1.0.

South Eastern and Chatham Railway

Fawkham Junction

Not a staff accident. Case is about representing a member if there were a inquest into a collision, (presumably) leading to a death

MK Perth OZ/GJD

London and North West Railway

Half wages, no claim made.

North British Railway

Not a staff accident. Case is about representing a member if there were a inquest into a fatal accident to John Moore, a Lampman

MK Perth OZ/GJD

Great Western Railway

Brymbo Locomotive Shed

No claim. Accident the result of larking.

North British Railway

City of Glasgow Corporation

Not a staff accident. Case is about representing a member if there were a public inquiry into a collision which proved fatel for Andrew Clark

London and North Western Railway

These pair of entries from diverse Branches suggest that they are not related, rather they relate to the defence of members involved in accidents. The comment "No Inquiry" suggests that neither matter was taken forward

HT Perth AusGJD

Great Eastern Railway

These pair of entries from diverse Branches suggest that they atre not related, rather they relate to the defence of members involved in accidents. The comment "No Inquiry" suggests that neither matter was taken forward

HT Perth Aus/GJD

Great Central Railway

No further details in the original document

Great Western Railway

"Accidental Death"

Mountain Ash 1.1.10 (Inquest)

Name of solicitor not given but "Mountain Ash 1(pound).1.10 (Inquest) written in that space. Year could be 1901 or 1907 but from other dates on the page 1901 seems most likely.

Newcastle Central

Telegraph Labourer

North Eastern Railway

"Accidental Death"