Newspaper Extract
Narrow Escape of an Express Train, at Hooton Roberts
20th February, 1854The express train which left Leeds for Sheffield at 10.30 yesterday morning met with an accident as it was passing the station at Kilnhurst.
Mr. Joshua Waring, stone merchant, of Hooton Roberts was unloading a crank from a truck which was on a siding. He had the crank suspended from a stationary crane belonging to the company, and was about to swing it across the main line when the express train consisting of eleven carriages came up at full speed.
Waring succeeded in holding the crane back until the engine and tender and 4 carriages had passed when it overpowered him and smashed against the other carriages, smashing the windows and woodwork of several compartments to atoms. The train was stopped and one of the passengers had sustained severe cuts about the head and face. He was removed into another carriage and the train proceeded to Sheffield where the broken carriages were removed.
