On This Day in History

[tutenkhamunsleeping]

40 years ago today I would be seeing AC/DC live at Birmingham Odeon

[chrism]

And 125 years ago today, the 08:45 Granville to Paris & Montparnasse express, operated by Chemins de fer de l'Ouest, failed to stop in time at the Paris Montparnasse terminus, ploughing through the buffers, across the station concourse, through the station wall and out into the street below, resulting in one of the most famous railway photographs ever being taken.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montparnasse_derailment

[emjaybee]

Yoikes!

Looks like my wife's parking!

[crewearpley40]

Or this mishap 
https://youtu.be/K-lbUg1G9BA    ouch  https://www.national-preservation.com/threads/class-31-runaway.27260/

[RailGooner]

.. in 1910 with the jury taking just 27 minutes of deliberations to find him guilty of murdering his wife Cora, the Lord Chief Justice Lord Alverstone sentenced Hawley Harvey Crippen - aka Dr. Crippen - to be "taken from this place to a place of lawful execution where he shall be hung by the neck, until he be dead, dead, dead.".

[crewearpley40]

And a few more useless bits of interest https://www.onthisday.com/

[tutenkhamunsleeping]

21 years ago today, RES liveried locos during an afternoon at Crewe:




86424 at Crewe on 22/10/99




90016 at Crewe on 22/10/99

[PLD]

Or this mishap 
https://youtu.be/K-lbUg1G9BA    ouch  https://www.national-preservation.com/threads/class-31-runaway.27260/

you're six days out with that one... (October  28th) 

[crewearpley40]

Or this mishap 
https://youtu.be/K-lbUg1G9BA    ouch  https://www.national-preservation.com/threads/class-31-runaway.27260/

you're six days out with that one... (October  28th) 

yes I knew it happened this week eg the event at staples corner. Just why I added another post later