deaths at Rothley train station

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Dear Office of Rail Regulation,

Do you have any records relating to deaths at Rothley train station from its opening on March 15th 1899 to its closure 6th April 1964? We're writing an article about the ghosts of Rothley for Haunted Magazine but we're having trouble verifying the claims that a station master and a farmer were killed after being hit by a train just after World War II, or that a young boy died after falling down an embankment and breaking his neck.

Any help you could give us would be greatly appreciated.

Yours faithfully,

C L Raven.

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CCT Contact, Office of Rail and Road

Dear Mr Raven

Thank you for your e-mail of 12th June.

I am handling your request under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FoIA 2000).

We aim to respond to all such enquiries within 20 working days of receipt and a full response will be sent to you no later than the 10th July.

Should you have any queries regarding your request please contact me.

Yours sincerely

Paul Wilkinson | Senior Executive Customer Correspondence Team
Office of Rail Regulation | One Kemble Street |2nd and 3rd Floors | London | WC2B 4AN
Tel: 020 7282 2018 | e-mail [email address]
Web: www.rail-reg.gov.uk | Twitter: @railregulation

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Dear Mr Raven

 

I write further to my e-mail of 13^th June and your request for
information made under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FoIA 2000).

 

You have requested details of any deaths at Rothley Train Station from
15^th March 1899 to 6^th April 1964.

 

It may be helpful if I first explain what reports were produced and exist
for the period. There were three main types of reports published by the
Railway Inspectorate into railway accidents:

 

·         Annual Reports on railway safety.

·         Reports into public inquiries into major railway accidents.

·         Reports for serious injuries and fatalities involving railway
workers.

 

We do hold reports for the period in question, however to carry out a
comprehensive search for any deaths at Rothley Station would go over the
appropriate cost limit. For central government this is set at £600, which
represents the estimated cost of one person spending 3½ working days in
determining if whether the department holds the information, locating and
preparing the information for release. Section 12 of FoIA 2000 makes
provision for public authorities to refuse requests where the cost exceeds
the appropriate limit.

 

Due to the wide date range you have provided, the estimated cost of
processing your request will be in excess of 3½ days and will involve the
extensive searches of the annual reports on railway safety and reports
into serious injuries and fatalities involving railway workers. These
reports are held in large bound volumes for each year, however they are
not indexed, and each bound volume would have to be checked to see if a
report for any fatality at Rothley is held.  Fatal accidents to members of
the public would not normally be subject to a published report, unless the
fatality was as a result of a train accident e.g.  a collision between
trains, derailment of rolling stock, fires on board trains or a train
running into an obstruction. The annual reports on railway safety do
contain some minor details of certain cases of fatalities and injuries to
members of the public, but not every fatality or injury is listed.  The
reports into public inquiries into major railway accidents are available
on the Railways Archive website at  [1]http://www.railwaysarchive.co.uk/

  

The Railways Archive refers to a derailment at Rothley on the 1^st June
1934, there were no injuries and no report held. I checked our records for
1934 to 1935 and can find no report of the derailment and concur with the
Railways Archive that no report was produced -
[2]http://www.railwaysarchive.co.uk/eventsu...

 

If you are able to narrow down the date range when the fatalities
occurred, we may be able to a carry out a more detailed search that falls
within the cost limit. For example by checking local records (newspapers,
death certificates) that may help pinpoint the date or actual year of the
accident.

 

I have carried out a search of the bound volume of reports of accidents to
railway workers for the period 1939 to 1970. These volumes contain a
simple index of reports published that year (on average 200) but the index
is not in alphabetical location order or date order. The search revealed
one report for a fatality at Rothley. The accident occurred on the 6^th
November 1963 and the report published on the 13^th April 1964. A copy of
the report is attached. I am sorry of the poor quality of copying, these
reports are held in large bound volumes which makes photocopying and
scanning difficult. This type of report was widely circulated within the
railway industry, so that lessons could be learnt to prevent a similar
event occurring.

 

Copyright

 

The report provided is the property of ORR, you have permission to
reproduce it, or refer to extracts from it for the purposes of any
research or for the article for the magazine you mentioned. If used please
acknowledge the source e.g. “Reproduced by kind permission of the Office
of Rail Regulation (ORR)”.

 

Should you have any further queries regarding your request please contact
me.  If you are unhappy in any way I have handled your request, you have
the right to ask for an internal review. Internal review requests should
be submitted within two months of the date of this  e-mail and should be
addressed to the Board Secretariat, at:

 

Office of Rail Regulation

One Kemble Street

London

WC2B 4AN

 

Fax 020-7282 2040

 

Email: [3][email address]

 

If you are not content with the outcome of the review or how we have
handled your request, you may apply directly to the Information
Commissioner (IC) for a decision. Generally the IC cannot make a decision
unless you have exhausted the complaints procedure provided by ORR. The IC
can be contacted at:

 

The Information Commissioner’s Office

Wycliffe House

Water Lane

Wilmslow

Cheshire

SK9 5AF

Tel:     0303 123 1113

Web:  [4]www.ico.gov.uk

 

Yours sincerely

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Paul Wilkinson | Senior Executive Customer Correspondence Team

Office of Rail Regulation | One Kemble Street |2^nd and 3^rd Floors |
London | WC2B 4AN

Tel: 020 7282 2018 | e-mail [5][email address]

Web: [6]www.rail-reg.gov.uk | Twitter: [7]@railregulation

 

 

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craig hughes left an annotation ()

Email me: Hughes.Craig@Yahoo.co.uk I have details of 3 deaths that happened at Rothley station, including dates, names and what happened also a copy of a death certificate! I have been researching and investigating the paranormal at Rothley station for 7 years and a volunteer at the station for 14 years.

Craig Hughes