In London, a runaway train leaves the station at Kings Cross and crosses the road outside

In London, an excursion train of the Great Northern Railroad approached its terminus in King's Cross Station at an uncontrollable speed.  The locomotive, its tender, and several carriages jumped the platform and continued across the station, out its entrance, and crossed the street outside, coming to rest in an area being excavated for a new underground tunnel.  Remarkably, no-one was injured. (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), 77.
    Date Certainty
    Exact
    Type
    Crime/Disasters
    How to Cite This Page: "In London, a runaway train leaves the station at Kings Cross and crosses the road outside," House Divided: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College, https://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/node/32059.