Seven days into the General Strike of May 1926 , union man William Golighty stood at a packed meeting of Cramlington miners and said: “Stop everything on wheels.” Rumours were sweeping the tiny village that a coal train was headed their way. Golighty - grandfather of actor Robson Green - believed it should be stopped. It led to what Ed Waugh, who has written a play about it, calls “The most notorious incident of the whole General Strike.” The miners were living in brutal conditions, plunged