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  1. www.bbc.co.uk › news › articlesThorpe rail disaster victims remembered 150 years on - BBC

    5 days ago · Four others died later from their injuries, with 73 passengers and two guards seriously injured. A temporary field hospital and morgue was set up at the Three Tuns, now the Rushcutters pub.

  2. theconversation.com › a-train-crash-150-years-agoA train crash 150 years ago is helping to bring the forgotten ...

    4 days ago · The focus on the Thorpe crash obscured a deadly situation: working on the railways was far more harmful than travelling on them. In 1874, 211 passengers died on Britain and Ireland’s railways ...

  3. uk.news.yahoo.com › train-crash-150-years-agoA train crash 150 years ago is helping to bring the forgotten ...

    5 days ago · At 9.45pm on September 10 1874, two trains collided head-on at the village of Thorpe St Andrew, two miles east of Norwich. According to a press report of the time, a “ghastly pyramid formed of hissing locomotives, shattered carriages and moaning, in some cases dying, passengers”. Twenty-five people died and 75 were injured.

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  5. www.railwayaccidents.port.ac.uk › the-thorpeThe Thorpe disaster at 150 – The power & problem of ...

    5 days ago · 10 September 2024 is the 150 th anniversary of the Thorpe railway disaster. Two trains met head-on, two miles east of Norwich. Twenty-five died and 75 were injured. It was big news at the time, and over the coming days will be remembered again in the village of Thorpe St Andrew.

  6. www.greatbritishlife.co.uk › magazines › norfolkThe Great Thorpe Railway Disaster of September 10, 1874

    4 days ago · By Phyllida Scrivens. On the evening of Thursday September 10, 1874, the so-called 'express' from London, due into Norwich Thorpe Station at 9pm, was running late again. Among the travellers, Norwich draper and outfitter George Womack, waited anxiously for his return journey to Great Yarmouth, following a difficult day at his shop on the corner ...

  7. www.bbc.co.uk › programmes › p0jpp7cnBBC Radio Norfolk - Secret Norfolk, 1874: The Thorpe rail ...

    4 days ago · In 1874, the worst single line rail collision took place in Thorpe. Phyllida Scrivens researched the incident over a number of years, and has now written a book about it.

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    It is revealed that Richard Thorpe will be undertaking an investigation into the death of Dr. Lambert. Upon hearing this Forbes resolves to plant a feather on Thorpe in order to have him killed. In conducting his investigation Thorpe brings up the point that Forbes' late wife died under similar circumstances to Lambert, suggesting that the two murders may be linked and that Forbes may be ...