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Description: | Probably taken on the Sunday after the accident, when the wreckage was removed, this photograph shows one of three cranes used by the London and South Western Railway Company to clear the wreckage.
The accident happened at midnight on Wednesday 6th October as the fast goods train from Salisbury to Waterloo passed the east signal box and crashed into several stationary trucks.
The goods engine left the rails and turned over, causing severe damage to the rolling stock and the track. The driver was seriously injured and taken to the cottage hospital while the guard, a man named Aggett, collapsed and died while walking to the signal box.
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Hampshire Chronicle 7th October 1916 | Format: | image/jpeg | License: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=gateway&f=generic_sitetext%2ehtm&_IXFIRST_=1&_IXMAXHITS_=1&cms_con_core_subtype%3acms_con_text_what=copyright&%3acms_sys_group=%22sopse%22 | Rights holder: | Hampshire Library and Information Service - Hampshire County Council | Subjects: | accident railway Andover costume crane crash London and South Western Railway Company | Temporal: | start=1916-10-01; end=1916-10-31; | Source: | Sense of place SE | Creator: | Copied by: Dine, Derek; Hampshire County Library; 1970s-1980s | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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