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Abbots Ripton railway station

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History
Abbots Ripton rail disaster
Routes
Notes
References
External links

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Abbots Ripton railway station was a railway station on the East Coast Main Line in the English county of Cambridgeshire. Although trains still pass on the now electrified railway the station closed in 1958.

History

The station was opened by the Great Northern Railway (GNR) on 1 November 1885 as Abbotts Ripton.{{sfn|Butt|1995|p=11}} The GNR became part of the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER)

during the Grouping on 1 January 1923. Renamed Abbots Ripton in 1938,{{sfn|Butt|1995|p=11}} the station then passed on to the Eastern Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948, and was closed by the British Transport Commission on 15 September 1958.{{sfn|Butt|1995|p=11}}

Abbots Ripton rail disaster

An accident occurred at the station on 21 January 1876, when the southbound Flying Scotsman express train from Edinburgh to London was involved in a double collision during a blizzard. Heavy snow had frozen around the semaphore signal arms, causing them to stick in the "clear" position, as a result of which the driver of the express was not warned of the presence of a coal train which was backing from the main line into a siding. A collision occurred, and not long after, a northbound express from London to Leeds ran into the wreckage. There were thirteen fatalities, and 53 passengers and 6 traincrew members were injured.{{sfn|Tyler|1876}}{{sfn|Rolt|Kichenside|1982|pp=114–120}}{{sfn|Kichenside|1997|pp=183–186}}

Routes

{{Historical Rail Start}}{{Rail line|previous=Huntingdon North
Line and station open|next=Holme
Line open, station closed|route=Great Northern Railway
East Coast Main Line|col={{GNR colour}} }}{{end}}

Notes

References

{{cite book |first=R.V.J. |last=Butt |title=The Directory of Railway Stations |publisher=Patrick Stephens Ltd |year=1995 |location=Yeovil |isbn=1-85260-508-1 |id=R508 |ref=harv }}
{{cite book|author=A. Jowett, |title= Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas |publisher=Atlantic Publishing |year=2000 |isbn=0-906899-99-0 }}
{{cite book |last=Kichenside |first=Geoffrey |editor-last=Dixon-Spain |editor-first=Charles |title=Great Train Disasters |year=1997 |publisher=Parragon |location=Avonmouth |isbn=0-7525-2229-9 |ref=harv }}
{{cite book |last1=Rolt |first1=L.T.C. |authorlink1=L. T. C. Rolt |last2=Kichenside |first2=Geoffrey |title=Red for Danger |edition=4th |year=1982 |origyear=1955 |publisher=David & Charles |location=Newton Abbot |isbn=0-7153-8362-0 |ref=harv }}
{{cite web |url=http://www.railwaysarchive.co.uk/documents/BoT_AbbottsRipton1876.pdf |title=The Report of the Court of Enquiry - Double Collision on the Great Northern Railway which occurred at Abbotts Ripton on the 21st January 1876 |first=H.W. |last=Tyler |date=23 February 1876 |work= |publisher= |location= |page= |pages= |at= |language= |trans-title=|format=PDF |accessdate=26 May 2008 |ref=harv }}

External links

Abbot's Ripton station on navigable O. S. map

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