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On Wednesday, 12 June 1889 a train carrying 940 men, women and children on a day out to the seaside met with disaster. 80 would be killed in the resulting twin collisions. Yet, out of this tragedy came a glimmer of hope: the Railway Regulation Act 1889 which made it a legal requirement for railways to have interlocking with points and signals; to use the block system of working; and to have automatic, continuous brakes.
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