Lichfield Train Crash 1946

Lichfield Train Crash 1946
Lichfield Train Crash 1946
Lichfield Train Crash 1946
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Lichfield Train Crash 1946
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ST NICHOLAS'S CHURCH - STOUGHTON ST (CDV) Strongroom Stack 265
Staffordshire
Lichfield Train Smash: wreckage on track
Celluloid negative
C 67 45
GP5815

Negatives Collection, The Record Office

The Lichfield train crash occurred on New Year's day, 1946. Due to extremely cold weather freezing the point mechanisms, a goods train carrying fish was mistakenly diverted into the passing up loop, where it ran into the back of a stationary passenger train waiting at the station platform. 20 people were killed and another 21 injured.
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GP5815
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