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

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 […]

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