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Friday 3 June 2011
Camberley, Surrey, Railway Accident 1907
Camberley, Surrey, Railway Accident 1907. In 1907 a Class T1 0-4-4-T locomotive of the LSWR (London & South Western Railway) slipped down the embankment at Park Street. I don't think anyone was hurt. The locomotive looks very incongruous in this setting. The Google Street View shows the location of the accident today. These postcards were published by the prolific postcard publishers Gale and Polden. One of the postcards has been posted but the sender makes no mention of the scene on the front, they only enquire if the recipient's cold is better.
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I especially like the first view with the street scene with people and dog. Nice sharp image of the train too.
ReplyDeleteI find that odd, that the sender should make no mention of what was obviously something rather important. I wonder if one of the bicycles belonged to the photographer. Derby postcard photographer and publisher Frank Scarratt used to include his bicycle in many of his shots.
ReplyDeleteSo interesting. While the train is a beauty, I really like looking at the crowd it attracted.
ReplyDeleteThese are really neat; thank you for choosing them to share with us. I'm finding it interesting that in many of today's train wreck photos that people haven't been seriously hurt. Thank goodness!
ReplyDeleteThanks so much for stopping by to visit!
Kathy M.
The Health & Safety boys would have a field day with this if it happened today. I have been involved in implementation of recommendations from rail accident investigations. It's frustrating not to know more about his one.
ReplyDeleteOh this is amazing to see something so huge and heavy thrown like a child's toy.
ReplyDeleteNext to a ship, in those days the train was the largest and fastest machine most people would ever see. The drama of a train wreck had more impact (pardon the word choice) than similar accidents today. The noise would have been frightening loud and long.
ReplyDeleteFor The First Time Howard!I Would Rather Be Stood In The 'New' Photo Rather Than The 'Old' Photo!!!!
ReplyDeleteIt is odd that the postcard writer makes no mention of the picture on the front. You’re right about the incongruity of the subject.
ReplyDeleteodd to see people milling around, oblivious to what just happened...
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HUGZ
Your Now picture is of the wrong side of the bridge if you went under the tunnel and come out into park street that is the correct view hope this helps
ReplyDeleteThank you, I have corrected this now
DeleteAs unfortunate as the accident was at the time, at least the postcard view allows a railway modeller like myself to see part of the under side of this class of locomotive
ReplyDeleteIf memory serves me well, this accident was caused by the weather, prior to the locomotive coming to grief the weather had been heavy rain, the embankment was saturated and the locomotive was the victim of the same giving way underneath it.
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