 Abbots Ripton rail accident

The Abbots Ripton rail disaster occurred on 21 January 1876 at Abbots Ripton, then in the county of Huntingdonshire, England, on the Great Northern Railway main line, previously thought to be exemplary for railway safety.In the accident, the "Special Scotch Express" train from Edinburgh to London was involved in a collision, during a blizzard, with a coal train.