Croydon’s Weekly Standard, January 14th 1882

FATAL ACCIDENT. On Wednesday evening last a soldier named Evans, belonging to the Grenadier Guards, was walking along the London and North-Western Railway towards Castlethorpe, and in getting out of the way of an express train and a train of empty carriages on the fast lines got into the slow line and was knocked down by an empty wagon train which was coming in another direction. One leg was cut off and he was otherwise mangled. When picked up, he was found to be quite dead. His remains were taken to the Carrington Arms to await an inquest.

Croydon's Weekly Standard, January 21st 1882

INQUEST. The inquest touching the death of Charles Evans, who was killed upon the railway on Wednesday week, which we briefly reported in our last week's issue, took place at the Carrington Arms Inn on Friday, the 13th inst., before E. T. Worley, Esq,. deputy coroner, and a respectable jury. After hearing the evidence of Richard Evans, father of the deceased; Alfred Brownsell, labourer; and William Bird signalman, the jury returned a verdict of accidental death.