When the driver and firemen of an express train were killed in an horrific railway accident in 1898, the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants was on hand to offer financial and moral support to their families. Somewhere in the vast expanse of Kensal Green Cemetery there are two near-identical gravestones. Carved from Portland stone, with plaques depicting a train and green slate ‘rails’ to represent … Continue reading How the ASRS supported the bereaved families of the ‘heroes of the footplate’