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Two Minutes Before the Bridge Fell: The Lewisham Rail Horror
Two Minutes Before the Bridge Fell: The Lewisham Rail Horror
Fear of ordinary routines turning deadly: a steam locomotive named Spitfire struck a stopped commuter train at 30 miles per hour in thick London fog, and a road bridge collapsed exactly two minutes later - long enough for survivors to think the worst had passed. What created that fatal 120-second window, and why had technology that could have prevented the crash already been approved yet never fitted?
In this episode, we lay out the sequence of events on the evening of 4 December 1957 and follow the facts that led to the Lewisham…
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