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Accident Returns: Extract for the Accident at Sandwich on 26th October 1854

Document Summary

The report on the collision of a passenger train with wagons at Sandwich in 1854.

This document was published on 6th November 1854 by Board of Trade.

It was written by Capt. H. W. Tyler.

This item is linked to the Accident at Sandwich on 26th October 1854

The original document format was Bound Volume, and comprised 2 pages.

This document was kindly sourced from Stuart Johnson and is in our Accident reports collection. It was added to the Archive on 12th August 2008.

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"On the evening of the 26th ultimo, the 1.30 pm. passenger train from London, due at Sandwich at 6 o'clock, arrived at that station at 6.10; and instead of running along the down line to the station platform, passed through the points above described to the up line, and came into collision with some loaded waggons which were standing on it. The passenger train consisted of engine, tender, five carriages, and a horse box, and the whole train ran upon the up line without any part of it having been thrown off the rails; but about eight of the passengers were injured by the concussion, though, fortunately, none of them to a serious extent."

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