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from Plymouth to London failed to negotiate a sharp bend at more than twice the speed limit and crashed into another train, killing 28 people. It is believed that the driver was trying to demonstrate the speed of the service, in competition with a rival railway company.
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was opening, and it was claimed that the driver of the crashed train was trying to show that his railway was capable of competitive speeds. It was also rumoured that passengers – mostly rich New Yorkers travelling to London from the transatlantic port at
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As a result of the crash, all trains were required to stop at Salisbury station (the boat train at the time had no passenger stops between Plymouth and Waterloo, although locomotives were changed at
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in 1907. All three resulted in deaths, including the footplate crews; the cause in each case was recorded as driver error but there has been much speculation since.
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of 30 miles per hour (48 km/h), but the express had been travelling at more than 70 miles per hour (110 km/h). The train was completely
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The accident was the second in a series of three derailments due to excessive speed at night in a 16-month period; the others were at
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There is a memorial tablet to the 28 dead (including the driver, two firemen and the guard) in
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British Railway Accidents of the 20th Century (reprinted as Tracks to Disaster)
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indicates railway accidents and incidents resulting in at least 20 fatalities
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and a light engine, killing 28 people including the driver and two firemen.
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Salisbury (1906) – description of the crash on the Danger Ahead website
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at this time, and for half a century afterwards, were not fitted with
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Accidents and incidents involving London and South Western Railway
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Official Board of Trade report (1906) at railwaysarchive.co.uk
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indicates the deadliest railway accident in British history
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failed to navigate a very sharp curve at the eastern end of
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Salisbury railway station
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