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ALT Posed 1930s accident prevention photo, showing a worker standing between tracks, about to be hit by a steam train approaching unseen from behind.
ALT Posed 1920s safety photo, showing a driver near the front of a steam loco as it was moving, warning of the dangers of leaving the cab whilst the engine was travelling.
ALT Posed 1920s safety photo showing a worker having stumbled and fallen in front of a train, as he tried to cross the line.
ALT Infographic showing the number of workers killed and injured on Britain and Ireland's railways and whose accidents were investigated, between 1911 and 1915. This was the first run of data we produced, of around 4000 cases, now hugely expanded.
ALT Wilston Samuel Jackson sitting in the cab of a steam locomotive with the number 60082.
ALT A group of people stand and sit together at London King's Cross beneath a blue plaque commemorating Wilston Samuel Jackson. There are arches and a few passersby in the background.
ALT Nose of 2020s GWR IET unit appearing to right of photo; looks out over Didcot Parkway station with name board, in the distance a small dark blue steam engine lets off steam and smoke at a GWR style halt at Didcot Railway Centre.
ALT Posed GWR staff safety photograph, showing a steam engine moving past a gang of five men - four with shovels stood to the side of the railway track (foul of the adjacent line) and a lookout man holding flags. Buildings and a bridge are in the distance.
ALT Black and white photograph, showing six men moving a section of railway line in situ - three on each rail, each using a metal pole wedged under the rails at intervals to lever the track into position. Beyond them are railway wagons in GWR livery, with buildings beyond. In the distance are signals and a look out man watching for approaching trains.
ALT A police officer stands close to the perilous drop where one of the spans of the Severn Railway Bridge had been demolished