I use Ilford film sometimes in my film camera and I used Ilford paper in college for developing my negatives. As a child I watched The Southern Rail connect to cars sometimes at the railroad crossings in Portsmouth, Virginia...Chuck Marshall and I cleaned this up on weekends doing the "bump" at the local dances...
January 16, 1944 – United Kingdom – Ilford rail crash (1944), England: an express passenger train from Norwich to London Liverpool Street station passes a signal set at danger, and runs into the back of an express passenger train from Yarmouth. 9 killed.