Railway accident at Abbots Ripton, Huntingdonshire 1876

A railway accident at Abbots Ripton, Huntingdonshire (now Cambridgeshire) on the Great Northern Railway. It happened when the Flying Scotsman express train from Edinburgh to London was involved in a double collision, during a blizzard, with a coal train and another passenger train. Seen here is the scene on the night of the accident. Thirteen passengers were killed, and 59 people injured. ~~

Abbots Blizzard Cambridgeshire Collision Huntingdonshire Ripton Scotsman Thirteen

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