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(1913) Date 2 September 1913 Time 03:04 Location Aisgill,
Westmorland Country England Rail line Settle-Carlisle Line Cause
Signal passed at danger Trains 2 Passengers 166 Deaths 16
Injuries 38 List of UK rail accidents by year  The Ais Gill rail
accident occurred on the Settle-Carlisle Railway in the north of
England on 2 September 1913. The proximate cause of the crash
was a signal passed at danger, but there were a very large
number of contributing factors.   The two trains involved were
both passenger trains which left Carlisle railway station in the
early hours of 2 September, destined for St Pancras station. The
Midland Railway, which owned and operated the Settle-Carlisle
line, had a policy of using small engines, and the two
locomotives had barely sufficient power to surmount the steep
gradients on the line with the heavy trains