What the records say
- When
- 2 Sep 1898
- Kind
- Rail accident
- Coordinates
- 52.30° N, 0.67° W
- Description
- 1898 railway incident in England
- Deaths
- 7
- Injured
- 65
Wellingborough rail accident
1898 railway incident in England
On 2 September 1898 at Wellingborough railway station a postman brought a mailcart to the station with mail which he was to see onto a train due at 20:22. The mail should then have been brought to the down platform through a passageway between the station yard and the platform. The postman went into the station, collected a luggage trolley, and took it along the platform to the platform side of the gate.
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