A Norfolk train crash 150 years ago brings the forgotten deaths of rail workers into the spotlight

Plaque erected at Thorpe St Andrew Church in Norfolk to the victims of the disaster.

On the 9 September, our own Dr Mike Esbester had this piece on the Thorpe St Andrew train crash of 10 September 1874 published in The Conversation.  Mike compares how memories of the loss of lives in such dramatic events compares with the often forgotten deaths of working class railway workers, whose deaths lack the single point of reference that such events provide.