A collision between two excursion trains killed eleven people and injured seventy-seven others at Helmshore in Lancashire, about eighteen miles north of Manchester where they had attended a fair. Near midnight, on an incline, one train had several carriages packed with passengers broke free and ran backwards down the hill to crash into a train following on the same track. These carriages contained almost all the victims. (By John Osborne)
Source Citation
Chronicle, The Annual Register or a View of the History and Politics of the Year 1860 (London: F. & J. Rivington, 1861), 152-153.