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Accident by Harborne junction

mikejee

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This is the result when 10 wagons and brakevan ran down from Rotten Park station into the buffers at the trap ppoimts opposite Harborne junction signal cabin on 31sr October 1953, ending with a footbridge destroyed and wagons in the main canal by the junction with the side basin seen on the map

Accident when ten wagons and a brakevan careered down the line from Rotton Park station into b...jpgmap 1950s showing harborne rail junction.jpg
 
When the picture is looked at in detail, the towpath bridge was of the Horseley Ironworks type and would have been erected when the New Main was constructed. The bridge that is now there would be by the Docks & Inland Waterways Executive.

It was reported in the Birmingham Daily Gazette November 2nd 1953, but does not receive a mention on the Railway Archive Website
The ten trucks had been detached so that the loco could delivers other to a factory and the remaining Ten and Brake Van ran back down the line to Harborne Junction where there were catch points. Four Waggons and Brake Van fell onto canal towpath and bridge

The gazette September 9th 1880 reported a similar accident where 9 waggons and van ran down to the junction with some crashing off the catch point siding into the canal
 
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