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Title: Engine Derailment at Todmorden Viaduct, September 1942. - MOT00472
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Title
Engine Derailment at Todmorden Viaduct, September 1942. - MOT00472
Description
Derailment 1942 - On the Friday night of September 4th 1942, a goods train left the rails at Todmorden viaduct and crashed down the embankment behind the market ground. With 28 coal wagons in tow, the train was heading towards Littleborough at 10pm when it was diverted into a loop line to allow another train to pass. In the loop line, it overshot the buffers and plunged down the embankment, demolishing a telegraph pole. The driver was pinned between the engine and the tender for some 2 1/2 hours while a rescue party fought to dig him out from under two tons of coal. The photograph shows the engine being craned back on to the line on Sunday. By 3.30 pm it was back on the rails ready to be taken away on its own wheels.
Creator
Unknown
Source
Todmorden Information Centre Trust
Date
1942, 1940s
Rights
PHDA - Todmorden Information Centre Trust
Relation
Pennine Horizons Digital Archive
Identifier
MOT00472.tif
Collection
Citation
Unknown, “Engine Derailment at Todmorden Viaduct, September 1942. - MOT00472,” Pennine Horizons Digital Archive, accessed April 19, 2024, https://penninehorizons.org/items/show/10799.
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