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July 17, 2012

On This Day 17th July 1856............ 17th July 2012


17/07/1856       The Picnic Train disaster on the North Pennsylvania Railroad (with 56 fatalities.. and an engineer, later exonerated of blame, who committed suicide) speeded  up the use of telegraph communications.

                         Source: Christian Wolmar : “The Great Railway Revolution” p 208

                        

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