William Parker vs. the LNER - lineside fire
- Made:
- 1943-1946; 1950-1951; 1960
- maker:
- London & North Eastern Railway and British Railways
2 files of correspondence, papers, reports, evidence, minutes etc. concerning the legal case William Parker vs. the LNER, 1943-1946. The case concerned a lineside fire on Mr. Parker's farmland on 20 August 1943, alledgedly ignited by an LNER locomotive, 4-4-0 D16 class no. 8878, on the Heacham-Wells line. Sir William Stanier gave evidence about the locomotive, and the case was later referred back to by BR. LNER file no. 6/5/267