1898 Wrawby Junction rail crash

Railway incident in Lincolnshire, England October 2023 August 2012 January 2026 1898 Wrawby Junction rail crash 53.5701 -0.4197 type:event_region:GB inline,title 17 October 1898 17:25 Wrawby Junction, Lincolnshire England Great Central Railway Goods train derailment 2 8 26 List of UK rail accidents by year On 17 October 1898 at Wrawby Junction,Wilson Railway Accidents on what was the Great Central Railway near Brigg in Lincolnshire, England, a passenger train collided with a derailed goods train; killing 8 people and injuring 26 more.Accident at Wrawby Junction on 17th October 1898 http://www.railwaysarchive.co.uk/eventsummary.php?eventID=6089 Railways Archive 7 January 2016 The passenger train was the 16:45 from Cleethorpes to Manchester consisting of a brake van, three passenger carriages and a rear guard's van. The goods train which had left Grimsby earlier in the day for Doncaster consisted of 44 waggons loaded with larch tree trunks, three trunks to a load secured with chains. The length of the trunks (up to 42 ft m) necessitated the close coupling of the waggons. The goods train was being shunted on a curve at low speed adjacent to the main line when five trucks derailed just as the passenger train approached. One truck toppled over; its load of timber projecting over the main line. The brake van 'was carried away with the exception of the offside and roof'. The next two carriages were 'clean swept away' above the floor level; the first compartment of the third passenger carriage was also destroyed. The investigation admitted that it was not possible to stop shunting operations from occurring on lines parallel and close to passenger running lines. References Sources The Times 1898 : 18 October page 6 "Serious Railway Accident" 19 October page 7 "The Serious Railway Accident" 20 October page 6 "The Serious Railway Accident" The Times 1899 : 6 January page 7 "The Wrawby Junction Accident" collapsed Category:Railway accidents and incidents in Lincolnshire Category:Railway accidents in 1898 Category:1898 in England Category:Great Central Railway Category:19th century in Lincolnshire Category:Derailments in England Category:Train collisions in England Category:October 1898 in the United Kingdom