Hall Road Disaster - 120 Years on

[John Luxton]

July 27 marks the 120th Anniversary of the Hall Road diaster on the the Southport to Liverpool Exchange electrified line.

Remembered by a BBC post which links to a memorial page on Sefton Council's web site:

A fatal train crash described as one of Britain's worst ever rail disasters is set to be memorialised 120 years on.

On 27 July 1905, a Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway express train from Liverpool to Southport was approaching Hall Road station, Blundellsands, when it struck an empty stationary train.

In what became known as the Hall Road Rail Disaster, a total of 21 passengers were killed and a further 47 injured, with an official report later finding the points on the track had failed to close properly.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy5w5d9e5z6o

 

[Lloyds siding]

Just behind the crashed carriage are the chimneys of the house I lived in during the early 1990s.