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Accident Returns: Extract for Accident at Sonning on 24th December 1841
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Archivist's Summary The report on the collision of a mixed goods and third class passenger train with a cutting slip at Sonning in 1841. This was the first major railway accident to be reported on by the Board of Trade, and the findings led to the first regulation of the conditions on third class trains.
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Category Accident reports
Related Event Accident at Sonning Hill Cutting on 24th December 1841
Date of Publication 25th December 1841
Author(s) Lieut. Col. Sir Frederic Smith (RE, FRS)
Publisher Board of Trade
Sourced? Yes
Source Dr Peter Lewis
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Source Format Bound Volume
Document Copyright Crown
Permission Requested? No
Permission Granted? Yes; under our OPSI click-use license No. C02W0005088
PDF Available? Yes
PDF File Copyright This PDF file is subject to the terms governing the reproduction of crown copyright material. Depending on the status and age of the original document, you may need an OPSI click-use license if you wish to reproduce this material, and other restrictions may apply. Please see this explanation for further details.
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Print of Sonning Cutting

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25th December 1841
Accident Returns: Extract for Accident at Sonning on 24th December 1841

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