My banner has come up with "No 'On This Day' events reported for 19th Dec" this morning ... but yet no matter where you look there is a transport connection
19th December ...
1851 The renowned artist, Joseph Turner, died. Although renowned for his oil paintings, Turner was also one of the greatest masters of British watercolour landscape painting.
1848 Emily Brontë, English author of Wuthering Heights, died of tuberculosis at the tender age of 30. Emily is buried in the Bronte family vault in the church.
And a connection there with trips and excursions to the Keigthly and Worth Railway
Research also reminds me of the loss of the Penlee Lifeboat and the Union Star on 19th December 1981, with eight lives on each. Very much worthy of a separate entry and thread which you'll find at
http://www.passenger.chat/9998