At 6am on 29th August 1900 John Allen, 62, was walking to work at Trent Station, where he was employed as a carpenter. He was hit by a train at Sheet Stores junction and killed instantly. He lived on Hey Street in New Sawley and was in the habit of walking beside the track from Sheet Stores to the station, perhaps having taken the path from Narrow Bridge past Trent Farm. The train was coming from Castle Donington along the Stenson line. The driver blew his whistle and John seemed to move aside but was somehow hit at the points and run over.
In the afternoon of Saturday 23rd August 1902 Henry Hudson, 58, was hit and run over by the Manchester to London express. The train had slowed to 30mph to cross the Trent, and the fireman blew the whistle to warn the man. The fireman thought they’d hit him, and they pulled up at the Hathern signal box to report it, though when the engine was examined at Leicester no evidence was found. Hudson was a boatman from Radford and was employed by Messrs Baker on construction of the 2nd railway bridge. He’d been to Trent Lock for lunch and was crossing the line back to his work. William Allen, a platelayer working on the line nearby, saw the express pass and heard the whistle. At first, he found Hudson’s head, then the body lying on the track.
On 17th June 1903, Frederick Fletcher, a decorator from Derby, was painting at Trent Station when he fell off the platform onto the line and hurt his ribs. He was taken to Derby Infirmary but released the same day.
On Saturday 14th November 1908 Arthur Basil Markham, the Liberal MP for Mansfield, was returning to London. His train pulled up at Trent Station, but the rear part of the train had not reached the platform. The MP, assuming he was at the platform stepped out of the carriage and fell heavily on the rails, dislocating his shoulder.
