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A bit of an OCR failure from an old document, but I found some of the words it substituted (Fireman Larynx, the Renoir coach ...) a little bit amusing.  Can you identify the event and the document?


GREAT WESTIQILN 1li\1LWAY.
l}on^d of Tra.de, Rztilwny Department, S, Richmond 'French,
l 1l.\Vl-I the loonier to ^r hr the intormziption ot the Boanwl ol` Trade. in
ixrmiplinnce with the Order to the Zits Jztniiliry, the result, of my inquiry into the collision that orzcnrred nt. 7.12 p.m. on Jtninnry 1(HRH nt. '1`hingleyJnnction, on the Greet WeSt^lʻH
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1n this case. the driver of the (3.30 p.:n. passenger train from West bury to Pndrlington, nz}? Chippenhinn rind Swindon, fnilerl to stop at the home signal nt. Thinly Junction. which was at danger, and caused his train to come into collision with the 5 p.1n. goods train iron Swindon to Plymouth, which was passing the junction on the down ' instil line. Five passengers were injure<l^one ottheni seriously. The drivers and lireinen to both trains were injured with bruises and burns, the worst crises being; those of
driver Butt and fireman larynx, of the goods train. who were severely burnt and scnldcd. Three other servants of the Coinpnny, who were in the passenger train, were bruised.
The passenger train consisted of at tL^ur^wheels^couple<l tender engine, running
ehininey in front, and liner hog couches, the Renoir coach having at hrzilce Fonipzirtinenti It was litter throe hon: with the vncnum brztlxc, which is said to have Jee in goot l
working order. Tic goods tin consisted of il six-wheels-coupled tender engine, also
running chimney in Trent, 43 wnggons {of which 25 were empty and the remainder lnnrled), and ri 25-ton brutalise gnu.
Alter the collision the position of the two trains wens ns follows :^Tl1c engine of the passenger tartan wens on the rails lo, the nap lyrnnch line, with its front end pressing against toilet hand lending end of the tender of che goods train; theca tender of the
passenger train and the first passenger conch were telescopic together, and derailed; while the three remaining passenger coaches were on the rails, The engine of the goods train wens turned over on to its right side, and fouling theca nap main line ; its tender was cli' the mils. The tive front wnggons of the goods train were derailed, and more or less piled up ; the next tour nwiggons were on the rails, and the next 1] were derailed, sonic to` them being pilcrl nap in it reinnrlmble fashion. The engines were rluinztgetl beyond tcpnir, and three passenger couches and 20 wnggons were ilmniigccl. several to the latter being completely smnsheil.
Desrrljmhzz.
Thinglcy Junction, where this collision occurred, is an ordinary donblc jnnetion
between the nap und down main lines to and from liristol ned the up and down brunch
lines to end from Westbnrvs cm Holt rind Trowbridge. The junction is timing to tins
proceeding to Bristol. The ninepin lines are practically straight, their general direction Heinz south-westerly, while the branch turns lo? to the south, with facing points on the
down main line, the curvature nt. the junction having n radius oflroin 28 to 29 chains.
_ Approaching the _]unction fron; Chippenham, there is n rising gradient of 1 in 660, While for branch trains npproncliiiig the junction from the south, the gradient, also rising, virtues from 1 in 309 at the distant signal to 1 in 264 nt. the junction. The i'g1\^l>ox is phreeul on the south side of thewniin lines, close to the junction. The own main home nn. distant signals are 110 yards and 1,077 yards respectively from
Elle sign:t.l.^l>ox. in the direction of Chippenlnnn. Thenapl>r^nch home signal is 165 yards tem T-llc sigiialrbox in it south-westerly tlircutioil, 01* 54 yilrtls liʻolʻtl Elm tlluliug point " *^'^cu the downerninnnnorl np branch lines. Th.e np branieh dirsmstsignnl is 1,06%) rrrds
mm the signal-ox, or {W4 yards train its home signal. The signals are all placed on the fl ergglmlkl side of their respectivelincs; they re \\ʼcll-Cl^\'lllCfl fhllcl flltlilllllf^nt SlgllnlS,
- roller clearlyseen by nn engine driver tor an eonsidcmhlc distance. lhe interlocking , m UPI ;g. the ul? Signnhbox Len C<>1'l'CDl,{ll`l(l is sneer that when the down mann line signals re lon erred, `Gd dh d
I^ PDownruneh signalsnorelocketotangr.
rev. G 2011:
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Whitehall, London, SW.,
l"el>Ronny 13th, 1907.

Very good. I like the "25-ton brutalise gnu".

Looks like Thingley Junction 1907, http://www.railwaysarchive.co.uk/eventsummary.php?eventID=1338 (http://www.railwaysarchive.co.uk/eventsummary.php?eventID=1338)

My spellchecker never used to like the idea of Heanor in Derbyshire. Being essentially American, it thought this was probably "Hanoi".

Very interesting. Even with the very odd spellings you can still see how succinct those old accident reports were. There's everything you need to know about Thingley Junction it's situation, approaches, signals etc. in a couple of paragraphs.