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Item: 200213

Surname: Wardell

First Name: George

Ship: -

Date: 27 August 1864

Place: Newcastle

Source: SMH

Details: Engine driver of No. 1 locomotive steam engine belonging to Dr. Mitchell and usually employed on the Burwood Railway, late Coal and Copper Company, in bringing coals from Burwood Coal mine to Newcastle. Driving the locomotive when thirteen year old Elijah Rodgers who had been riding on the waggons, was struck and killed. A verdict of accidental death was found at inquest

 

Item: 200214

Surname: Wardell

First Name: George

Ship: -

Date: 22 October 1868

Place: Newcastle

Source: Newcastle Chronicle

Details: Engine driver for the Burwood Company. Driving the engine when a lad named Samuel Carley whose parents resided at Burwood fell from the coal waggons and was killed. Inquest found accidental death

 

Item: 200215

Surname: Wardell

First Name: George

Ship: -

Date: 1860s

Place: Newcastle

Source: The Neilson Twins. The locomotives of the Newcastle Coal and Copper Company by John Shoebridge in Light Railways, Australia s Magazine of Industrial and Narrow Gauge Railways. Number 208. August 2009

Details: The new locomotives were the first sophisticated machines owned by the Coal and Copper Company. Until this time, trains had been run by animal power or gravity; the mines were ventilated by furnaces and drained via adits. With only very basic machinery to maintain, the trade of the smith and the carpenter sufficed. This was about to change, and now skilled mechanics had to be recruited and workshop facilities provided to attend and maintain the iron horses. George Wardell was the first locomotive driver. Nothing is known of his background, although he was to continue his association with the locomotives until 1872.

 

Item: 200216

Surname: Wardell

First Name: George

Ship: -

Date: 5 November 1905

Place: Newcastle

Source: NMH

Details: George Wardell was among the first members of the Hunter street church at Newcastle

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