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Accident Returns: Extract for the Accident at Lurgan on 12th February 1895

Document Summary

The report on a rear-end collision between two goods trains on the Great Northern Railway (Ireland).

This document was published on 6th April 1895 by Board of Trade.

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

This item is linked to the Accident at Lurgan on 12th February 1895

The original document format was Bound Volume, and comprised 7 pages.

This document was kindly sourced from David Bodicoat and is in our Accident reports collection. It was added to the Archive on 11th April 2012 by Stuart Johnson.

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"Just after the 1 a.m. down goods train from Armagh to Belfast, which had been doing work at the station, had started upon its journey, it was overtaken at 3.40 a.m. by the 8 p.m. down goods train from Dublin, which struck the rear brake-van at a point about half-way along the platform at Lurgan, breaking up the van and the two waggons next to it, and throwing two others off the rails."

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