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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