The Terrible Railway Accident at the Bay Horse Station near Lancaster in 1848

This is an account of a serious accident which occurred at the Bay Horse Railway Station on 21 August 1848, when a northbound Euston to Glasgow express ploughed into the back of a local train stopped at the station. A woman was killed and about twenty passengers were injured. The woman's 18 month old child was thrown out of the carriage window but was barely injured.
This book is an exact copy of the accident & inquest as reported in the Lancaster Gazette of 1848.