Accident to Skegness Railway Guard
Mr Jackson, the well-known guard on the Skegness branch of the Great Northern Railway, met with a serious accident in 1905.
Soon after the seven o’clock train had left Wainfleet for Skegness, and only about three hundred yards from the former station, he by some means fell out of the train and severely injured his left arm. Nothing was known of the accident until the train arrived at Havenhouse minus the guard.
The stationamster here at once telegraphed to Wainfleet, but Jackson by this time had walked to his home close to the Wainfleet railway station.
He was in a very exhausted condition and unable to give account of the accident.
He was removed the same evening to Boston hospital where it was found necessary to amputate his arm.
He has been guard on the line about twenty years, and is well-known to a great number of visitors to Skegness.
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