1948

TQ2892 : Locomotive humbled after serious derailment at New Southgate

taken 76 years ago, near to Friern Barnet, Barnet, England

Locomotive humbled after serious derailment at New Southgate
Locomotive humbled after serious derailment at New Southgate
View eastward, across the East Coast Main Line just north of New Southgate Station. [See my 'Triumph and Beyond: the East Coast Main Line, 1939 - 1959, Part 1', Challenger, 1998]. Owing to poor maintenance of the track after the War, the overnight 19.50 Edinburgh - King's Cross derailed at 70 mph north of New Southgate station. The engine became detached from the train and slid along 100 yards. The fireman was killed and the driver injured, but the passengers were relatively unscathed. The locomotive is A2/1 Pacific 60508 'Duke of Rothesay' and the driver was the celebrated Bill Hoole. (See also Adrian Gray 'East Coast Main Line Disasters', Pendragon Publication 2013).

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TQ2892, 115 images   (more nearby 🔍)
Photographer
Ben Brooksbank   (more nearby)
Date Taken
17 July 1948   (more nearby)
Submitted
Tuesday, 8 February, 2011
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! TQ 285 924 [100m precision]
WGS84: 51:36.9784N 0:8.7242W
Camera Location
OSGB36: geotagged! TQ 285 924
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East-northeast (about 67 degrees)
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