The report into the mysterious derailment of the King's Cross -
Edinburgh passenger train at Grantham is now online at
http://www.railwaysarchive.co.uk/eventsummary.php?eventID=74 .
Salisbury 1906 is next for publicatiom...

PS does anyone know if a photograph exists of this accident?

GazK wrote:


> PS does anyone know if a photograph exists of this accident?


About a dozen pictures in my copy of 'The Grantham Rail Crash of 1906'
by Harold Bonnett.
Published by Bygone Grantham 1978, 41pp, ISBN 0 906338 05 0

Cheers
Robt P.

"GazK"  wrote:


>The report into the mysterious derailment of the King's Cross -
>Edinburgh passenger train at Grantham is now online 



Apart from the suicide pack theroy between the driver and fireman
which I have doubts over, it would be interesting to know if any
records exist of delays to northbound trains at Peterborough that day.
It could have been that the crew somehow thought they were taking over
an earlier delayed train that did not stop at Grantham.



Mike Parkes  
mike@mphgate.removetoreply demon.co.uk

Mike Parkes wrote:

> "GazK"  wrote:
>
> >The report into the mysterious derailment of the King's Cross -
> >Edinburgh passenger train at Grantham is now online
>
>
> Apart from the suicide pack theroy between the driver and fireman
> which I have doubts over, it would be interesting to know if any
> records exist of delays to northbound trains at Peterborough that day.
> It could have been that the crew somehow thought they were taking over
> an earlier delayed train that did not stop at Grantham.


No reference to any delays in Bonnett's book.

"...he [Driver Fleetwood] was well acquainted with the main line, and
had worked the same train on the previous two nights...."

"The twelve-vehicle Edinburgh express left Peterborough punctually at
10.20pm - next stop Grantham...."

Cheers
Robt P.