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The Grantham rail accident occurred on 19 September 1906. An evening Sleeping-Car and Mail train of the Great Northern Railway , running from London Kings Cross to Edinburgh Waverley hauled by Ivatt 'Atlantic' No 276 derailed , killing 14.
September 19, 1906 Grantham rail accident. September 19 – United Kingdom – Grantham rail accident, Grantham, England: An evening sleeping-car and mail train from London to Edinburgh that should have stopped at Grantham, failed to do so; no definite reason was ever established. The points beyond the station had not yet been set, and the ...
The worst accident was the Quintinshill rail disaster in Scotland in 1915 with 226 dead and 246 injured. [a] The second worst, and the worst in England's peacetime history, was the 1952 Harrow and Wealdstone rail crash, which killed 112 people and injured 340. [1]
A Long Island driver lost control and slammed into a Chinese restaurant in a fiery crash Monday night – the second time a motorist struck the eatery in about a year, cops said. A 57-year-old ...
Princess Anne made a special visit to the hospital where she was treated after a horse-related accident to thank the staff who looked after her.. On Feb. 6, the Princess Royal, 74, returned to ...
And on Feb. 6, 10 people were killed in a plane crash in Alaska. Nevertheless, according to Jeff Guzzetti, an airline safety consultant and a former FAA and NTSB investigator, air travel is “extremely safe." “The odds of getting injured or killed in an commercial airline accident is far less than driving in your car,” Guzzetti said.
At the time of the crash there were 20 to 30 mph winds, with reported gusts up to 40 mph. As the passengers were being evacuated, the temperature was 18 degrees, with a windchill temperature of ...
The Eastbourne rail crash was an accident on the British railway system which occurred on 25 August 1958 at Eastbourne railway station in East Sussex. The accident killed five people and injured 41 others. Eastbourne station is a terminus station with services to Hastings, Brighton, London Victoria.