http://www.bbc.co.uk/gloucestershire/focus/2004/10/sharpness_rail_disaster.shtml

Thank you. I have saved that link. I've wondered whether he worked in
Sharpness before heading for the US in about 1870? "Sharpness" is also in my Dad's
memory, but when I suggested "Shapridge" he agree it could have been that,
instead.