Hi there
I'm Admin on a Fb Group - Kings Cross Topshed & Drivers Depot - & one of his colleagues was enquiring if anyone could remember the date of Maurice Holman's tragic accident between Hornsey & Harringay pls...?
Thanks
Date of Maurice Holman's accident at Harringay?
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Re: Date of Maurice Holman's accident at Harringay?
There are several posts about this accident on this forum that happened in 1971 when an empty Rolls Royce DMU ran into the back end of a train of Cartics on the Up Carriage or Up Goods lines between Harringay Up Goods & Finsbury Park no.6 s/boxes but there isn't an actual date in 1971 that is mentioned by anyone.oakleyboy99 wrote:Hi there
I'm Admin on a Fb Group - Kings Cross Topshed & Drivers Depot - & one of his colleagues was enquiring if anyone could remember the date of Maurice Holman's tragic accident between Hornsey & Harringay pls...?
Thanks
Re: Date of Maurice Holman's accident at Harringay?
15th April 1971.
There is an accident report available as a PDF file.
At railwaysarchive.co.uk
John
There is an accident report available as a PDF file.
At railwaysarchive.co.uk
John
Re: Date of Maurice Holman's accident at Harringay?
Strangely enough when this accident happened on the above date i was actually outside Welwyn north s/box doing some train spotting after secondary school on that day when the signalman came out onto the s/box landing at the top of the staircase and called over to the railman on the Up platform to say that it had just come over the s/n telegraph that there had been a collision at Finsbury Park between a set of empties and a Car train (Cartics).JASd17 wrote:15th April 1971.
I recall that the above incident between the signalman and the railman happened about tea-time maybe between 5:pm-6:pm on that day and it was still daylight.
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Re: Date of Maurice Holman's accident at Harringay?
G'Day Gents
My driver and I passed Maurice, less than 2 minutes, before he crashed into the Cartics, my driver, had given Maurice a wave and a toot, as we passed, we were told of the accident, when we arrived at Hertford North, I have also posted on this forum a picture of the remains of DMU, inside Hornsey shed.
I've always remembered this accident, as to me , it shows the fragility of human life, gone in the blink of an eye
manna
My driver and I passed Maurice, less than 2 minutes, before he crashed into the Cartics, my driver, had given Maurice a wave and a toot, as we passed, we were told of the accident, when we arrived at Hertford North, I have also posted on this forum a picture of the remains of DMU, inside Hornsey shed.
I've always remembered this accident, as to me , it shows the fragility of human life, gone in the blink of an eye
manna
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