Mary Evans Abbots Ripton railway accident, Cambridgeshire 10000405

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Picture No	10000405
Date	January 1876
Description	Abbots Ripton railway accident, Cambridgeshire
Details	Scene at a railway accident at Abbots Ripton, near Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire. There was firstly a collision between an express passenger train and a coal train, then a later express passenger train collided with the debris from the first collision. It took place on the Great Northern Railway at Abbots Ripton near Huntingdon on 21 January 1876. The enquiry found that the primary causes of the accident were blizzard conditions and defective equipment; a secondary cause was a signalling error. There were 14 fatalities and 58 people injured.
Source	Mr Gompertz (a passenger) Front cover in 'The Illustrated London News', 21 January 1876, page 97
Credit	© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
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