PRO RAIL 830/16

27.9.1861
140. The chairman reported that on the 6th inst an accident had occurred on board one of the Company’s steam boats in the Blisworth Tunnel, by which two men, Webb and Edward Broadbent had been suffocated and two men severely burnt and that every possible attention had been given to the men injured who were now in the Northampton Infirmary and that the sum of £45 had been given by the Company to the widows of the deceased persons.

141. Blisworth Tunnel Shaft uncovered. Read a letter from Mr Cherry that he had uncovered a shaft in the centre of the Blisworth Tunnel and that he was corresponding with Mr Simpson, the agent of the Duke of Grafton with a view to opening two more

146. Letter from Mr Cherry. Now two more shafts are open in Blisworth Tunnel and one in Braunston.