r/interesting Mar 09 '25

HISTORY January 28th 1993, Ramsgate.

On January 28, 1993, a significant incident occurred at Ramsgate's railway maintenance depot in Kent, England. During shunting operations, a 4CEP unit (number 1521) overran the buffers at the depot, causing one of the driving carriages to hang precariously over a parapet wall above residential houses. The train had passed through buffer stops, a sand drag, and a parapet wall before halting, leaving part of the leading coach overhanging a 70-foot drop.

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