What the records say
- When
- 4 Dec 1984
- Kind
- Rail accident
- Coordinates
- 53.48° N, 2.32° W
- Description
- collision between a passenger and a freight train in 1984
- Deaths
- 3
2 sources record it
- Wikidata: air, rail, road, mining and industrial accidentsWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Eccles rail crash; three people are killed”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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