A Study in Tragedy: the human cost of the 1957 St Johns Rail Disaster, a talk by author Dr Tony Redding
The Brookmill 65 Cranbrook Rd, London, United KingdomOn Wednesday December 4 1957 London and much of the South East was blanketed in a “pea-souper” smog. Driver Trew, at the controls of the Battle of Britain class locomotive “Spitfire”, ploughed into the back of a stationary electric train halted at St John’s station. The results were catastrophic. The impact collapsed the rail flyover, […]