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Wanstead Grand Trunk RR Wanstead Ontario, Canada - (26/12/1902) A telephone conversation between a dispatcher and the operator at Watford resulted in a misunderstanding about a change in the crossing point for train No 5 westbound. The train normally met an eastbound freight at Watford on the Grand Trunk RR. Because of his misunderstanding, the operator failed to give the engineer of train No 5 a train order with details of a change in the crossing point. The trains met on the single line close to Wanstead. The collision caused the deaths of 28 people. WRAD: Copyright © D A Fry 1998

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