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Accident Returns: Extract for the Accident at Laister Dyke, Quarry Gap on 22nd February 1887

Document Summary

The report on a collision between a passenger train and a wagon left standing foul of the main line.

This document was published on 12th March 1887 by Board of Trade.

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

This item is linked to the Accident at Laister Dyke, Quarry Gap on 22nd February 1887

The original document format was Bound Volume, and comprised 4 pages.

This document was kindly sourced from John Whitaker and is in our Accident reports collection. It was added to the Archive on 1st April 2012 by Stuart Johnson.

Copyright Information

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"The 8.25 p.m. passenger train from Bradford to Shipley (consisting of tank-engine, running tank first, third class break-carriage, one third-class and two composite carriages, and third-class break carriage), which left Laister Dyke at 8.35 p.m., came into collision about a minute afterwards with a goods waggon, one of four vehicles which a goods train from Shipley to Laister Dyke had shunted across the line at Quarry Gap at about 8.16 p.m., and which, instead of running into a siding as intended, had stopped on the crossing foul of the main line, and outside the safety-points of the siding."

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