Kentish Town rail accident
- Kentish Town rail accident
On 2 September 1861, near Kentish Town railway station in London, 16 people were killed and 317 injured, when a excursion train operated by the North London Railway collided with a freight train operated by the London and North Western Railway.
The excursion train was running early and had been given permission to proceed; but met the freight train as it crossed the lines at a freight sidings unprotected by signals.
ee also
*List of rail accidents in the United Kingdom
References
* [http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=&scope=books&FORM=BCBB#t=bjw1zt8ovRvJR_7qn96hbA&sq= Railway Reminiscences] , p.94, by George P. Neele, McCorquodale & Co. Ltd., 1904, available from Microsoft Live Search Books
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