This accident took place on 21 September 1866, and involved the 9.53 "up" train from Dartmouth. Workmen had been laying a new set of points and had not put out any warnings! Fortunately no-one was hurt. A description appears in John Pike's book "Iron Horse to the Sea" (Ex Libris Press, 1987), although the date is quoted as 26 September and the photograph is given the wrong year; a contemporary report was published in the "Torquay Directory" newspaper of September 1866.

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