Rail accidents can be a nightmare ordeal - something my own family has direct experience of, with my father a survivor of the Ladbroke Grove train crash in 1999 (aka the Paddington Disaster), where he was the guard on the Great Western Train which was crashed into by a Thames Train, an incident which saw the death of 31 people.
If your ancestor was in a railway accident in earlier times, the National Archives at Kew may be able to help. The body's website has just announced that many railway accident records have now been catalogued by volunteers - for more, see http://nationalarchives.gov.uk/news/473.htm.
UPDATE: Ken Nisbet from SAFHS has contacted me to mention another useful site for accident reports, located at www.railwaysarchive.co.uk/eventlisting.php. (Thanks Ken!).
Chris
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Tuesday, 13 July 2010
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