OTD - 19th December - death of Joseph Turner and Emily Bronte

grahame

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OTD - 19th December - death of Joseph Turner and Emily Bronte

« on: December 19, 2023, 08:00:17 »

My banner has come up with "No 'On This Day' events reported for 19th Dec" this morning ... but yet no matter where you look there is a transport connection

19th December ...

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1851 The renowned artist, Joseph Turner, died. Although renowned for his oil paintings, Turner was also one of the greatest masters of British watercolour landscape painting.

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1848 Emily Brontë, English author of Wuthering Heights, died of tuberculosis at the tender age of 30. Emily is buried in the Bronte family vault in the church.

And a connection there with trips and excursions to the Keigthly and Worth Railway

Research also reminds me of the loss of the Penlee Lifeboat and the Union Star on 19th December 1981, with eight lives on each. Very much worthy of a separate entry and thread which you'll find at http://www.passenger.chat/9998


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Re: OTD - 19th December - death of Joseph Turner and Emily Bronte

« Reply #1 on: December 20, 2023, 15:10:04 »

19th December: Ealing derailment alas.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ealing_rail_crash

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Re: OTD - 19th December - death of Joseph Turner and Emily Bronte

« Reply #2 on: December 20, 2023, 19:49:35 »

Quote from: Mark A on December 20, 2023, 15:10:04

19th December: Ealing derailment alas.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ealing_rail_crash

Mark

Thank you for flagging that up

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The Ealing rail crash was an accident on the British railway system that occurred on 19 December 1973. The 17:18 express train from London Paddington to Oxford—with approximately 650 passengers on board—was derailed while travelling at around 70 mph (110 km/h) between Ealing Broadway and West Ealing. Ten passengers were killed and 94 were injured, and it was Britain's deadliest train crash of the decade until the Moorgate tube crash which killed 45. The cause of the accident was an unsecured maintenance door that had fallen open whilst the train was travelling, after having struck several lineside objects, it struck a Point machine at Longfield Avenue, derailing the entire train.


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