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Abbots Ripton rail accident

1876 disasters in the United Kingdom1876 in England19th century in HuntingdonshireAccidents and incidents involving Great Northern Railway (Great Britain)EngvarB from May 2014
Rail transport in CambridgeshireRailway accidents and incidents in HuntingdonshireRailway accidents in 1876Train collisions in EnglandTransport in Huntingdonshire
Abbots Ripton station site geograph 3247131 by Ben Brooksbank
Abbots Ripton station site geograph 3247131 by Ben Brooksbank

The Abbots Ripton rail disaster occurred on 21 January 1876 at Abbots Ripton, then in the county of Huntingdonshire, England, on the Great Northern Railway main line, previously thought to be exemplary for railway safety. In the accident, the Special Scotch Express train from Edinburgh to London was involved in a collision, during a blizzard, with a coal train. An express travelling in the other direction then ran into the wreckage. The initial accident was caused by: over-reliance on signals and block working as allowing high-speed running even in adverse conditions systematic signal failure in the adverse conditions of that day due to a vulnerability to accumulation of snow and iceThe accident (and the subsequent inquiry into it) led to fundamental changes in British railway signalling practice.

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