Burscough Junction rail accident
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Burscough Junction rail accident
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The Burscough Junction Station Crash occurred on 15 January 1880 at the Burscough Junction railway station on the Liverpool to Preston railway line in England. The line was operated by the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway company at the time. There were nine people killed in the accident and more than fifty people were injured. The cause of the accident was a combination of human error, a defective and inadequate signalling system and an inadequate track layout which could not cope with complex
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