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Thread Author: Duncan Replies: 6

 Steam Trains - Mostly - Duncan
Zero - I didn't know you were still knocking them out, so to speak?

www.youtube.com/channel/UCpbUrFqGpP0wb1-WvRH4lCQ
 Steam Trains - Mostly - Zero
Indeed, not much to see in the year of covid tho, its a bit of an earner now.
 Steam Trains - Mostly - bathtub tom
>> Indeed, not much to see in the year of covid tho, its a bit of
>> an earner now.

Wears yor Christmas spirit? your really winding him up nell?
 Steam Trains - Mostly - CGNorwich
In a moment of boredom during lockdown I took to reading about Victorian railway disasters. Was suprised how many and how catastrophic they were. One occurred locally a couple of miles outside Norwich at a place called Whitlingham Junction killing around 20 passengers . I often walk the nearby marshes. The cause was signalling error on a stretch of single line resulting in a head on collision

Anyway I read that the driver and fireman of the mail train who were both killed in the collision were buried in a Norwich cemetery so I spent a an afternoon this week amongst the tombstones looking for their graves which I found.

I'm not turning into some sort of rail f enthusiast am I?

 Steam Trains - Mostly - sooty123
I'm not turning into some sort of rail f enthusiast am I?
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Sounds too late already.
 Steam Trains - Mostly - Zero
>> In a moment of boredom during lockdown I took to reading about Victorian railway disasters.

Quintishill? I'll wager.

>> Was suprised how many and how catastrophic they were. One occurred locally a couple of
>> miles outside Norwich at a place called Whitlingham Junction killing around 20 passengers . I
>> often walk the nearby marshes. The cause was signalling error on a stretch of single
>> line resulting in a head on collision

This is a goldmine of info

www.railwaysarchive.co.uk/eventlisting.php

Basically, if you live near a railway you'll find an accident near to you/

 Steam Trains - Mostly - Falkirk Bairn
My parents were in Glasgow buying the engagement ring in 10th December 1937.

They caught the train home about an hour before the trains involved in the accident.

www.railwaysarchive.co.uk/eventsummary.php?eventID=104
Signalling errors one train run up the back of another.

Carriages came off the Viaduct 35 dead, 170 injured.

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