MP's widow cut in two by Preston train
Local historian Keith Johnson looks back at another horrific rail death from Victorian times.
On the fourth Monday of June 1874 Anne Baines, aged 75, the widow of the late Matthew Talbot Baines, former MP for Leeds, caught the train from Lancaster to Brock railway station where she was met by the coachman for Mrs. Threlfall, of Hollowforth, who drove her to a farm of hers at Woodplumpton.
From thence she was taken to Mrs. Threlfall’s. After dinner she proceeded to Myerscough House. From there she went to Brock to make her journey home.
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