Show sudden death of a engine driver on monday morning james birchall Bir chalk aged 67 of york street wigan an engine driver in the 1 cm lancashire and york co met with a very sudden death deceased went to liia engine which was in the locomotive ched in frog lane soon after five on the morning named being then in his usual health it seems that the previous had his photo graph taken and when his stoker arrived atthe shed ho latter wenyi he did not turn hip acl have hiag photograph photo grah taken also the was explaining that there must have been to the time anen deceased on taft engiak fell the arami comrade and expired almost immediately dia tely dr Roo croft had attended deceased who suffered from on the facto being made known to the borough coroner mr he decided that an inquest sary birch all was pone athe oldest engine drivers in lancashire baving been capacity for almost forty years he was first a servant under the north union railway co and afterwards changed toche london and northwest ertiS rhe greatest part was spent in the service sery ice ot the lancashire and yorkshire railway co and for many years and up to his death he worked the cipan and Manchester traffic with the exception of driver crompton he was the oldest servant in the employ of the lancashire and yorkshire railway co but including the times he had served under the three com panie beena driver fora longer period th he high eata teem by the chief authorities and the workmen of the company in whose service he had grown hoary with years and he was widely known an d greatly respected by a large number of people who had been accustomed to railway traveling in this part of the country the funeral of the deceased took e algan cemetery on wednesday a afternoon abarge A large num berof the employees of the lancashire and yorkshire railway company consisting of representatives from the vari gift departments as well as en linemen from other towns attended the obsequies to pay a last tribute of respect to the deceased the cortege left york street at and proceeded to the cemetery chere the funeral ceremony waa performed by the rev F leesen curate of st thomas during the afternoon the bells of the parish church rang a muffled peal the deceased being well known and respected A correspondent writes the hand oi death what with sickness and accidental has becq and yorkshire railway men at the station during the lat few weeks on wednesday the inet for the fourth time within the above period we were called upon to journey to an open grave this time in which to lay the mortal w mains of ft k s I 1 has seen r over 40 v jr mf M f ri fi TA years on the footplate ofine locomotive james birchall after over years service nud now in his year was thinking of retiring from the railway and as a to of his long connection with locomotive on last had his portrait taken on his engine and on monday morn ing fileo clock left hiah go to whilst getting th e engine ready a few words passed between fireman as he the previous day to haye bis portrait taken with with him and before they left the shed the old man was taken ill and died could be got plain spoken kuta sterling workman without his honest tanned fa cewill be missed from the jine byboth gera and the can bashire ca shire nd yorkshire railway co have lost one of their oldest and servanda ser vanta aa neva known to have a serious mis during his long career h has cocom stiv e remodeller remodelled ato 8 engine oi today ia fa far what etwas iu hi days H was nearly the aa bled on the lancashire and yorkshire at bitne it ia ona f the depots of th onfre th aoka to the kindness kind neis of the chiefs of the departments the euarda points men and were to attend the funeral which wag of an impressive character much sympathy being felt for his aged widow the deceased joined 1875 ana S af pf are all grown up aud they do bot require the orphan fund benefits |