Hexthorpe rail accident
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hexthorpe-rail-accident-236-14390456
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Hexthorpe rail accident
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The Hexthorpe rail accident occurred on 16 September 1887 at Hexthorpe railway platform some 1.5 miles (2.4 km) west of Doncaster on the South Yorkshire Railway line to Sheffield and Barnsley. The platform was situated within a block section between Hexthorpe Junction and Cherry Tree Lane and so had no signals of its own. The railway platform was a simple wooden structure on the Doncaster - bound line usually used for the collection of tickets from the many trains arriving in the town for the S
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexthorpe_rail_accident
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2023-08-11T16:31:27Z
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