Down from the engine thrown,
Wounded to death,
What were the words he spoke
With his last breath?
Was it a cry for aid,
Helpless lying
There in the rain—meet help
For the dying ?
Nay, he had words to speak
Whate’er betide,
"Signal the down express "
Gasped he and died
Done that he had to do,
What shall be said ?
Silence is best—what words
Meet for this dead?
Eulogy for a footplate-man killed by a fall from the locomotive.
Epitaph of Thomas Port killed by a railway train in 1838
A pointsman is killed by a passing train:-
A mother's grief for a son killed by a locomotive.
A driver is killed and the Fireman takes over to drive the train
A bride to be is killed by a locomotive driven by her prospective husband.
A woman recollects the death of her railwayman son, run down by a train.