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| Picture No | 10006387 |
| Date | 21 January 1876 |
| Description | Railway accident at Abbots Ripton, Huntingdonshire 1876 |
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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. ~~
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| Source | Engraving in 'The Illustrated London News', 29 January 1876, page 117 |
| Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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