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Actions	North Eastern Railway Register of Prosthetic Limbs Remove from selection Add to selection TitleNorth Eastern Railway Register of Prosthetic Limbs ReferencePROS CreatorNorth Eastern Railway Co The North Eastern Railway Company was formed in 1854 when the York, Newcastle and Berwick, York and North Midland, Leeds Northern, and Malton and Driffield Railways amalgamated. It acquired the West Hartlepool Railway in 1864, the Stockton and Darlington in 1865 and the Blyth and Tyne in 1874. As a result it almost had a monopoly in its area. Its area of operation covered the north east and north Yorkshire, and stretched from Berwick-on-Tweed south to Doncaster, with extensions into Westmorland and Cumberland and into Scotland. It exercised running powers over the North British line from Berwick to Edinburgh and a joint owner of the Forth Bridge. It was also a joint owner of the East Coast Joint Stock with the Great Northern and North British Railways. Its main goods traffic was coal from the Northumberland and Durham coalfields. It was an early investor in electrification, initially to deal with a difficult approach to the docks but later extended to the Newcastle-upon-Tyne suburban area. It also electrified goods workings between Shildon and Middlesbrough and planned to electrify the York to Newcastle route (even building a prototype locomotive) but the first world war intervened and the work was not carried out. The headquarters of the NER were in York where it also had its carriage works. The main works were at Shildon. Among its Chief Mechanical Engineers were Wilson Worsdell, Thomas Worsdell and Vincent Raven. The NER became part of the London and North Eastern Railway under Grouping in 1923. Date 1918 - 1922 Scope and ContentNorth Eastern Railway register of prosthetic limbs, 1918-1922. One volume giving the names of recipients of prosthetic limbs, their geographical location, the sequential number of each prosthetic limb and the name of the person who recommended that the recipients be provided with a prosthesis. The register illustrates the reactive and reparative approach taken by railway companies such as the North Eastern Railway (NER) to the health and safety of their employees. This register details the production and distribution of prosthetic limbs to employees of the NER and gives quantitative data on the shocking scale of industrial injury on the railways. As the register covers the period 1918-1922, it is likely that a proportion of the prosthesis recipients were injured serving in the armed forces during the First World War rather than in the NER’s machine shops or marshalling yards. Extent1 volume Levelfonds Repository nameNational Railway Museum, York SubjectProstheses, Railways, Physical Disabilities Hierarchy browser PROS North Eastern Railway Register of Prosthetic Limbs 1918 - 1922 fonds contains 190 parts

TitleNorth Eastern Railway Register of Prosthetic Limbs

ReferencePROS

Date

1918 - 1922

Scope and ContentNorth Eastern Railway register of prosthetic limbs, 1918-1922. One volume giving the names of recipients of prosthetic limbs, their geographical location, the sequential number of each prosthetic limb and the name of the person who recommended that the recipients be provided with a prosthesis.

The register illustrates the reactive and reparative approach taken by railway companies such as the North Eastern Railway (NER) to the health and safety of their employees. This register details the production and distribution of prosthetic limbs to employees of the NER and gives quantitative data on the shocking scale of industrial injury on the railways. As the register covers the period 1918-1922, it is likely that a proportion of the prosthesis recipients were injured serving in the armed forces during the First World War rather than in the NER’s machine shops or marshalling yards.

Extent1 volume

Levelfonds

Repository nameNational Railway Museum, York

SubjectProstheses, Railways, Physical Disabilities