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Published Tuesday, 15 July 2014 by Piper Haywood

First reported railway death

Photo of a marble tablet inscribed with a tribute to William Huskisson

What a sentence! Never forget the Right Honourable William Huskisson MP, possibly “the world’s first widely reported railway casualty”.  People just don’t write tributes like they used to, eh? Just one of the many treasures in the National Railway Museum‘s warehouse.

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