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Accident Returns: Extract for the Accident at Kenyon Junction on 8th January 1870

Document Summary

The report of the collision of a passenger train with a goods train at Kenyon junction, near Leigh (Lancashire).

This document was published on 24th January 1870 by Board of Trade.

It was written by Lieut. Col. F. H. Rich.

This item is linked to the Accident at Kenyon Junction on 8th January 1870

The original document format was Bound Volume, and comprised 1 pages.

This document was kindly sourced from Barry Turvin and is in our Accident reports collection. It was added to the Archive on 3rd July 2012 by John Charnley.

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"The signals at Kenyon junction were at all right, as the train approached that junction, about 10 minutes after its proper time. Just before the train reached the junction, a goods train ran out from the sidings at Kenyon junction on to the line on which the passenger train was travelling.

The driver of the passenger train, who had already slackened the speed of his train to 10 or 12 miles an hour, so as to pull up at Kenyon station, which is about 160 yards beyond the junction, reversed his engine, applied his tender break, and whistled for the guards break, but he could not stop his train, which ran into the goods train."

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