There are grand monuments all around; Monuments to battles, heroes, etc..
I choose a monument to the victims of a tragic event that involved ordinary people on an ordinary day when they were off to do their day’s work…
On 8th October 1952 in the second worst disaster to occur on the UK railway network, the 7:31 Tring-Euston commuter service standing in the up fast platform with 800 passengers aboard was struck in the rear by the late running Perth-Euston sleeper running at between 55 and 60mph which had passed a colour-light distant signal and two semaphore signals at danger in patchy fog. Although the area signals were immediately returned to danger by the signalman at Harrow it was too late to prevent the 8am Euston-Liverpool express from colliding with the wreckage of the initial accident at around 60mph resulting in many additional casualties. The reason for the Perth express passing the signals was never established as the driver was amongst those who perished.
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