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===Other incidents===
*In May 1861 an engine cleaner named Samuel Pugh was working in a pit underneath a locomotive at Bridgnorth.<ref group="note">The railway did not open until 1862, therefore this was presumably a Contractors' locomotive.</ref> The driver who was also in the pit asked the fireman to move the locomotive. He initially failed to do so but as Pugh attempted to climb out of the pit between the wheels, the locomotive moved, "almost literally cutting the poor fellow in two". He was taken to the Infirmary where both his legs were amputated.<ref>Western Daily Press, 14 May 1861, via the British Newspaper Archive</ref>
*On 27 April 1876 George Bradley, a cattle drover from Worcester, attempted to alight from a goods train approaching Bewdley Station while it was still moving. Possibly mistaking the bridge parapet for the platform, he stepped off too soon and fell to the highway below and died in Kidderminster Infirmary the following morning.<ref>[https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/BL/0000150/18760401/005/0003?browse=true Worcester Journal on The British Newspaper Archive]</ref>
