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Accident Returns: Extract for the Accident at Oldham Clegg Street on 17th December 1874

Document Summary

The report on an accident in which carriages containing passengers, being shunted by gravity, collided with wagons standing in a tunnel.

This document was published on 5th January 1875 by Board of Trade.

It was written by Capt. H. W. Tyler.

This item is linked to the Accident at Oldham Clegg Street on 17th December 1874

The original document format was Bound Volume, and comprised 3 pages.

This document was kindly sourced from Google Books and is in our Accident reports collection. It was added to the Archive on 28th October 2021 by Stuart Johnson.

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"In this case, a train of passenger-carriages, without an engine attached to them, was being lowered down from the up-platform at the above station, when they came into collision with some loaded coal-waggons which were standing on the up-main-line in a tunnel on the west of the station.
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This collision occurred in the course of a mode of working which was very unsatisfactory, but which appears to have been more or less forced upon the officers and servants at the Oldham station by the exigencies of their traffic. It is not right that passenger-carriages, with the passengers in them, should be lowered in such a way into the tunnel, under the control of a guard at the tail of them only, for the engine to get round them. With a view to preventing such an accident in future, it is very desirable that when a passenger train arrives at the station the carrioges should remain at the platforms, and the engine be taken round them, as far as is possible, at the cost even of extra delay, rather than that the trains should be allowed with the passengers in them to dr*p down into the tunnel as on this occasion. But in order that the traffic may be conveniently and safely worked through this station, extensive alterations are much required."

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