Kirtlebridge rail crash

When

2 Oct 1872

Kind

Rail accident

Coordinates

55.05° N, 3.21° W

Description

1872 railway incident in Scotland

Deaths

12

1872 railway incident in Scotland

The Kirtlebridge rail crash took place in 1872 at Kirtlebridge railway station in Dumfriesshire. An express passenger train ran into a goods train that was shunting; 11 people lost their lives immediately, and one further person succumbed later. The cause was a failure to communicate between the station master in charge of the shunting operation, and the signalman.

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