Paddy mails, generally considered as being workmen's trains, were operated by, or for many companies to transport their workers to their place of work...
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Orgreave Colliery (section The Orgreave Paddy Mail)
severed and a replacement bus service was introduced in place of the Paddy mail which never returned. Sheffield Corporation began operating a regular...
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a type of cultivated land Paddy (unmilled rice) Paddy mail, a train for construction workers Paddy Whiskey, a liquor Patty (disambiguation) Paddi (disambiguation)...
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Silverwood Colliery (section Paddy mail crash)
February 1966, miners starting their shift went down the pit to board the "Paddy mail". It was normal practice for the ‘man-rider’ to be followed by a second...
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accident was caused by the breaking of a rope hauling an underground Paddy Mail train, carrying 90 men and 30 boys. Seven people were killed and around...
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place on the section between Woodhouse and Birley West colliery. The "Paddy Mail" was 'topped and tailed' by colliery locomotives, Birley No.3 at the front...
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Orgreave rail accident (redirect from Orgreave Paddy Mail accident)
adjacent passenger line. A workmen's train, known as a paddy mail, ran into the wreckage; paddy mails were workmen's trains operated in connection with all...
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Orgreave Colliery in South Yorkshire, England. These workmen's trains or "Paddy Mails" were operated between Sheffield Victoria and Treeton Colliery at shift...
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adjacent valley, navvies were billeted at Breary Banks, which involved the Paddy Mail trains (workman's train) having to reverse at Leighton Junction. The beginner...
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collision 3 December 1923 Nunnery Colliery 13 December 1926 Orgreave Paddy Mail accident 1 February 2008 Barrow upon Soar rail accident The principal...
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