Kentish Town rail accident

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On 2 September 1861, near Kentish Town railway station in London, 16 people were killed and 317 injured, when a excursion train operated by the North London Railway collided with a freight train operated by the London and North Western Railway.

The excursion train was running early and had been given permission to proceed; but met the freight train as it crossed the lines at a freight sidings unprotected by signals.

[edit] See also

• List of rail accidents in the United Kingdom

[edit] References

• Railway Reminiscences, p.94, by George P. Neele, McCorquodale & Co. Ltd., 1904, available from Microsoft Live Search Books