Wednesday Picture: Fatal railway crash, Kentish Town, 1861. But where?
16 dead. 317 injured. 20 seriously. Kentish Town has seen no rail accident like it, before or since This memorable image appeared in a weekly newspaper, the Illustrated London News, after a major rail crash occurred at Kentish Town on 2 September, 1861. At just after 7pm, a passenger train on what is now part …
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