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Accident Returns: Extract for the Accident at Melton Mowbray North on 25th July 1892

Document Summary

The report on the derailment of a passenger train at Melton Mowbray North (GN & LNW Joint Rly) in 1892.

This document was published on 30th July 1892 by Board of Trade.

It was written by Maj. F. A. Marindin.

This item is linked to the Accident at Melton Mowbray North (GN&LNW Joint) on 25th July 1892

The original document format was Bound Volume, and comprised 10 pages.

This document was kindly sourced from David Bodicoat and is in our Accident reports collection. It was added to the Archive on 1st December 2008.

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"In this case as the 1.53 p.m. London and North-Western train from Nottingham to Northampton was approaching Melton north signal-cabin upon the up line at 2.46 pm, the engine left the rails, followed by the whole of the eight vehicles in the train.

The driver, Robert Herron, who jumped from his engine just before it went over the embankment, was killed, probably being struck by one of the carriages, and his body was found upon the 4-ft. way of the up line; the fireman, Henry Pollard, was also killed, his body being found under the end of the third-class carriage at the foot of the embankment, and a news-boy named William Stone, who was a passenger, supposed to have been in one of the two leading vehicles, was also found dead under the first-class carriage halfway down the slope. There were, fortunately, few passengers except in the rear part of the train, and three only are returned as having been injured."

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