Qualla: Grantham Rail Accident https://qualla.com/grantham-rail-accident en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:15 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/r/s/grantham-rail-accident-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Grantham Rail Accident https://qualla.com/grantham-rail-accident Grantham Rail Accident: Introduction https://qualla.com/grantham-rail-accident/ Photo credit Unknown author, Public domain. At a quarter past eleven on the night of 19 September 1906, the postal sorters at Grantham heard a sound that should not have existed. The Anglo-Scottish Mail was not booked to stop, no, that is wrong - it was booked to stop. It was the booking that made the next thirty seconds impossible. Ivatt Atlantic No. 276 came roaring out of the southern darkness at well over forty miles an hour, headlights blazing, whistle silent, regulator open. The points at the platform end were set against her, locked for a freight movement, with a fifteen-mile-an-hour speed limit. The locomotive hit them, jumped the rails, and detonated in the North Yard in a single white flash that lit the town. Fourteen people died. The Board of Trade inquiry took testimony for weeks and concluded, with formal Edwardian restraint, that the cause must forever remain a mystery.

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