Signals to Danger - Railway disasters in the UK

Shipton-on-Cherwell - December 1874


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Christmas Eve 1874. As people make their way home to see friends and family, many swarmed to London stations to start their journey. 
Several hours after a train left London, it derailed over a canal bridge, and the disaster takes the lives of 34 people.

What led to the disaster which ruined Christmas in a sleepy Oxfordshire village?

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Signals to Danger - Railway disasters in the UKBy Daniel Fox

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