England. Railway accident suffered by one of the "Salisbury and Dorset Junction Railway" trains that covered the route between Salisbury-Weymouth, at 4:30 p.m. on June 3, 1884. The train derailed south of Downton in Wiltshire, eight miles from Salisbury. Forty-one people were injured and four died. Three of them drowned when a carriage overturned in a drainage ditch. Engraving. La Ilustración Española y Americana (The Spanish and American Illustration), June 22, 1884.
England. Railway accident suffered by one of the "Salisbury and Dorset Junction Railway" trains that covered the route between Salisbury-Weymouth, at 4:30 p.m. on June 3, 1884. The train derailed south of Downton in Wiltshire, eight miles from Salisbury. Forty-one people were injured and four died. Three of them drowned when a carriage overturned in a drainage ditch. Engraving. La Ilustración Española y Americana (The Spanish and American Illustration), June 22, 1884.