Railway death - c1855

[Richard Knott]

It was Alexander Naismith after all, but the dates were a bit wrong.

He is described as a clerk and 'Army Pensioner' on his death certificate - so the Crimea War may be right - and the cause of death was a railway accident; but it was in 1895 when he was 57, just forty years after coming home!

Richard

[JSHC]

There is a report on this accident in the Scotsman newspaper on 25 February 1895

MAN KILLED AT OMOA STATION.—Alexander Naismith, aged fifty-eight, who resided at Newarthill, was instantaneously killed on Saturday at Omoa Station on the main line of the Caledonian Railway. He was on his way to Messrs Gibb & Son's Auchinlea Quarries, where he was employed as a clerk, and he halted on the down line till the 7.40 am passenger train from Omoa to Edinburgh should go past. Meanwhile a train conveying fish from Granton to Glasgow approached at full speed, and before the unfortunate man could get clear it threw him down.

[Richard Knott]

Thanks. Very interesting.

Richard

[Hibee]

Omoa was a new one on me.  Seems it became Cleland Station.

Hibee

[caroclay]

not sure if this helps but i stay not far from this railway line and omoa is cleland station the line runs from newarthill along side the omoa rd and in to cleland (it is the edinburgh line)not far from auchinlea, if walking from newarthill to cleland you would have to cross this line, this area of cleland was known as omoa and the station was across the road from omoa poorhouse (now cleland hospital)

regards
carolyn

[Joseph Jackson]

A photo of the original Omoa station in Cleland.