Accidente ferroviario

Ditton Junction rail crash

17 sept 1912 · 53.36° N, 2.77° W

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Cuándo
17 sept 1912
Tipo
Accidente ferroviario
Coordenadas
53.36° N, 2.77° W
Description
rail crash accident
Deaths
15

Ditton Junction rail crash

1912 railway incident in England

Ditton Junction is near Widnes on the Liverpool spur of the former London and North Western Railway. This complex junction had eight running lines and associated signal gantries. On 17 September 1912 the 17:30 Chester to Liverpool express was signalled to cross from the fast to the slow line, but the driver, Robert Hughes, age 41, from Llangwstenin, Conwy, who had little experience of the junction and had never been…

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