Peckham Rye train crash 1904

[Chener Books]

I came across this by accident.

Official report here

John K

[plimsoul]

that is fantastic.

i am currently reading bleak house and this really hits home the reality that our obsession with paper work/bureaucracy is a long one...

[ianr]

It's a pretty succinct report though, and very quickly produced: accident 23 Jan, inquiry ordered 28 Jan, report completed 6 Feb (but then a month in the printing).

Did you notice the driver's 10hr 40min shift, with the accident happening in the last hour?

[ianr]

I see from the map here http://www.oldhousebooks.co.uk/product.php?prod=65 that the Old Kent Road (& Hatcham) station really was on Old Kent Road.

I found it while looking unsuccessfully for a Bradshaw, to check the stated scheduled journey time (p.59) from there to Peckham Rye of just four minutes. There is a Bradshaw-Williams timetable to be found http://www.railtimes.biz/index.html, though idiosyncratically it lists only information for the year 2010.