Details of the Accident
Place | Bullhouse, West Riding of Yorkshire, England |
Date | Wednesday 16th July 1884, 1.21 p.m. |
Railway Company | Manchester, Sheffield & Lincolnshire Railway |
No. of Fatalities | 24 |
Cause of Accident | Derailment |
Description | An express passenger train, the 12.30 p.m. from Manchester, London Road to London, Kings Cross, with through carriages for Grimsby Docks, in connection with the evening steamer sailing, had left Woodhead tunnel and was gathering speed on the downhill gradient towards Penistone. As it entered the curve at Bullhouse, the driver felt the engine develop an uneasy roll, but before he could apply the brakes, he heard a crack. A driving wheel axle on the locomotive had snapped, and the resulting spread of the driving wheels distorted the track. The axle fracture was probably caused by metal fatigue and the axle broke. |
Sources/Further Reading
- The Manchester Guardian, 10th June 1886 (Passing reference in report of unrelated court case)
List of Fatalities
The 24 fatalities are listed in the table below together with brief notes of any other information found so far.
The last column shows the General Register Office (England and Wales), Statutory Register (Scotland), General Register Northern Ireland or Civil Registration for Ireland reference where this has been identified.
Surname | First Names | Age | Occupation | Residence | Notes | GRO/SR/GRONI/GROIE Reference |
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BARWICK | Archibald | 2 | , | 1884/Sep Wortley 9c 166 | ||
BARWICK | Beatrice | 0 | , | 1884/Sep Wortley 9c 166 | ||
BARWICK | Edith | 6 | , | 1884/Sep Wortley 9c 166 | ||
BROMLEY | Massey | 40 | Engineer | , | Chief Mechanical Engineer of the Great Eastern Railway from 1878-1881 | 1884/Sep Wortley 9c 166 |
COATES | Rachel | 43 | , | Married | 1884/Sep Wortley 9c 166 | |
DAWSON | Mary | 35 | , | 1884/Sep Wortley 9c 167 | ||
DURKAN | Michael | 55 | , | 1884/Sep Wortley 9c 167 | ||
EDELSTEN | Carrie | 38 | , | 1884/Sep Wortley 9c 167 | ||
EKINS | Agnes Clotilda Constance | 17 | , | 1884/Sep Wortley 9c 167 | ||
GIRDLESTONE | Albert James | 12 | , | 1884/Sep Wortley 9c 167 | ||
GOULD | Agnes | 17 | , | Unmarried | 1884/Sep Wortley 9c 167 | |
JONES | Emma Mary | 17 | , | 1884/Sep Wortley 9c 166 | ||
LEA | Annie | 23 | , | 1884/Sep Manchester 8d 175 | ||
MARSHALL | Robert Aldred | 31 | , | 1884/Sep Wortley 9c 166 | ||
MARTIN | Bertha | 40 | , | Married | 1884/Sep Manchester 8d 175 | |
POOLE | James Nicholas | 55 | , | Died of injuries 30th July | 1884/Sep Manchester 8d 175 | |
RAWLINGS | Ann | 47 | , | Married | 1884/Sep Manchester 8d 175 | |
SHORROCK | Harriet | 57 | , | Wife of John SHORROCK. Buried Darwen Old Cemetery | 1884/Sep Wortley 9c 166 | |
SHORROCK | John | 65 | , | Husband of Harriet SHORROCK. Buried Darwen Old Cemetery | 1884/Sep Wortley 9c 165 | |
SPENCER | Mary Ann | 65 | , | 1884/Sep Wortley 9c 167 | ||
STOWER | Mary | 45 | , | Married | 1884/Sep Wortley 9c 166 | |
TETLOW | ANN | 59 | , | Unmarried | 1884/Sep Manchester 8d 178 | |
THORNTHWAITE | Mary | 35 | , | 1884/Sep Wortley 9c 167 | ||
WOODHEAD | John Proctor | 41 | Fire insurance assessor | Ashton-on-Mersey, CHS | 1884/Sep Wortley 9c 166 |