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Friday, December 12th, 2008
The railway tunnel tragedy near Winchester in 1842
The building of the railways in England in the nineteenth century was a hazardous occupation for the workers. With only the most basic of health and safety rules in place there were many preventable fatalities and little if any compensation would have been paid to the widows left without an income. This is story of […]
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