WRECKZILLA- car wrecks

Lady Wulfrun posted a photo: Above the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal, a mobile crane re-rights MGR coal wagons on Oxley Junction following a train crash in March 1985. The runaway coal train that had been bound for Ironbridge Power Station left the rails at Oxley Junction and came to rest on the redundant track bed [...]

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Lady Wulfrun posted a photo: British Railways 47324 pictured after crashing at Oxley Junction, Wolverhampton in March 1985. The coal train had run driverless from Oxley Carriage Sidings to Oxley Junction where it derailed at speed and ended up embedding itself into the long disused track bed of the former Wolverhampton-Wombourne-Stourbridge line, making it the [...]

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Lady Wulfrun posted a photo: British Railways 47324 pictured after crashing at Oxley Junction, Wolverhampton in March 1985. The coal train had run driverless from Oxley Carriage Sidings to Oxley Junction where it derailed at speed and ended up embedding itself into the long disused track bed of the former Wolverhampton-Wombourne-Stourbridge line, making it the [...]

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