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Sonning Cutting railway accident - 24 December 1841: eight (later nine) dead
 
Sonning Cutting railway accident - 24 December 1841: eight (later nine) dead
Posted by Chris from Nailsea at 20:12, 26th December 2025
 
A candidate for addition to our 'On This Day' topic on the Coffee Shop forum, from Wikipedia - two days late, for which I do apologise: I only just became aware of it, this evening.

CfN.

Re: Sonning Cutting railway accident - 24 December 1841: eight (later nine) dead
Posted by grahame at 20:25, 26th December 2025
 
A candidate for addition to our 'On This Day' topic on the Coffee Shop forum, from Wikipedia - two days late, for which I do apologise: I only just became aware of it, this evening.

CfN.


Added, and will come up next year.   An early example of a cutting sliding onto the track

Re: Sonning Cutting railway accident - 24 December 1841: eight (later nine) dead
Posted by CyclingSid at 06:19, 27th December 2025
 
Where was the recent Sonning slip in relation to the historical one? Looking at the work done to both sides of the cutting just west of where the A4 crosses the railway at Shepherds Hill it can't be far different.

 
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