The full inscription reads "Sacred to the memory of WILLIAM STEPHENSON, engine driver, who lost his life on the 2nd day of March 1853 on the Newcastle & Tynemouth Railway by his engine No.184 running off the line of rails over the embankment at the west end of the Wellington viaduct aged 32 years, He has left a widow and 2 children to lament his death. He opened the Newcastle & Berwick Railway out in July 1847 by taking the first train of passengers from Tweedmouth to Newcastle. He was respected by all his fellow workman [sic] and always obliging to his master."
This is part of the Job: 2K/14815 St Bartholomew's Church, Tweedmouth, Northumberland; within the Volume: BF112307 Informed Conservation - Berwick-Upon-Tweed; within the Series: EHC01/002 Eh Architectural Requests; within the Collection: EHC01 English Heritage(Eh):Archive
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Photographer: Skingle, Bob
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