1893
Strike of coal miners, resulting in a considerable unemployment
amongst enginemen
NO WEEKLY PAPERS FOR 1893
ON THE WARWICK UNIVERSITY WEBSITE
Railway accidents on the
L.B.S.C.R.
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South - East Croydon on 20th March 1893
driver Henry Harman & firemen Harry Killich depot unknown
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FRACTURE TYRE AT EAST CROYDON
20th MARCH 1893
extracted from RTCS book on locomotives of the LBSCR
On the 20th March, 1893, a 'Gladstone Class' engine No.219 Cleveland got into trouble, when she was passing South Croydon at 60 m.p.h. with the 8.40 a.m. Brighton – London bridge non-stop Pullman express. The train consisted of ten coaches, plus Pullmans Maud & Jupiter, and weighed 260 tons empty. The journey had been uneventful, apart from a belt of fog near Horley, until the electric communication bell was rung by the Conductor of Maud as South Croydon station was approached. Looking back the driver noticed rising dust from the Pullmans, and immediately applied the brakes and flung the engine in reverse. A very ragged stop was made at the southern end of East Croydon station, when an inspection disclosed that Jupiter’s right tyre of the rear bogie had fractured and broken fifty three chairs. Only five windows were smashed or cracked, and on one was injured, although Cleveland could not be moved until the fitters had attended to the jammed brakes and badly damaged brake rodding. At the inquiry the tyres on Jupiter were found too thin and below Brighton standards owning to the Company’s examiner being unfamiliar with their design, which was of Midland Railway pattern and unlike those employed on the Brighton stock. Orders were immediately given for substitution of standard pattern tyres on all Pullmans before entering regular traffic. Attempts to obtain payment from the Pullman Car Company were without success, pursued for over twelve months.
PHOTOGRAPHER UNKNOWN
Littlehampton Locomotive Shed
REDUCING THE HOURS FOR FOOTPLATEMEN ON
GOODS ENGINES
extracted from RTCS book on locomotives of the L.B.S.C.R.
Footplatemen have always worked long hours, this being especially so for the footplatemen
who worked on goods engines, who frequently spent sixteen or seventeen hours per day away from home, occasionally much longer when bad weather delayed their trains. The Board of Trade considered that men working such long hours were the cause of many accidents and in November 1893, broached the subject with the London & Brighton Railway's Chairman, who later instructed his Locomotive Superintendent, Robert Billinton, to rearrange the goods rosters to provide each crew with a weekly rest day, and to reduce the time spent on duty to fourteen hours per day. Robert Billinton made the necessary adjustments to the working timetables, but because the London & Brighton Locomotive Committee refused to sanction the sharing of engines, he was forced to purchase eight more locomotives to cover the goods traffic.
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Portsmouth Harbour on 12th December 1893
Fratton driver John David Goff
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STORIES FROM THE SHOVEL
extracted from the R.C.T.S. book of L.B.S.C.R. Locomotice Vol. 2
THE CHRISTMAS SPECIAL
Tunbridge Wells Driver Cooke