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Accident Returns: Extract for Accident at Inverythan on 27th November 1882

Document Summary

The report into the collapse of a cast iron bridge under a passenger train at Inverythan in the Scottish highlands in 1882.

This document was published on 24th December 1882 by Board of Trade.

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

This item is linked to the Accident at Inverythan on 27th November 1882

The original document format was Bound Volume, and comprised 13 pages.

This document was kindly sourced from Dr Peter Lewis and is in our Accident reports collection. It was added to the Archive on 10th March 2006.

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"In this case the 4 p.m. up mixed train from Macduff to Inveramsay...was passing over a bridge carrying the railway across the turnpike road from Inverary to Turriff, at 4.57 p.pm, the superstructure of the bridge gave way with the most distastrous results...the tender remained still attached to the engine, but all the wheels were off the rails to the right-hand side; the drawbar at the back of the tender was broken off, and the leading waggon had run down the bank, and was standing on its wheels in the turnpike road...the third had its leading wheels on the line south of the bridge, and was broken in two halves, the trailing half being among the wreckage on the road below..."