From the Arthur Trevena collection of photographs. Accident at Denton Holme, Cumbria, 24 December 1902.
The driver of this Glasgow & South Western Railway 0-6-0 locomotive No 100A, hauling a train of wagons, mistook a siding for a through line. The locomotive ran through the buffers, hit a wall and derailed.
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