6th January 2018, 19:07
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Location: Ashen-North Essex/Suffolk borders.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by hereward
Today is the 50th anniversary of the Hixon disaster when the Manchester to London train hit a 120 ton transformer on a level crossing at 75 mph. It was being moved from English Electric, Stafford to a storage shed at Hixon it had a police escort. Three crew and eight passengers were killed.
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More details here.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hixon_rail_crash
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