The driver stopped the train near the summit of the hill to inspect and adjust the braking system and climbed back into the cab. When he started the train the brakes totally failed, causing the train to roll with great velocity straight back down the hill, crashing after passing two stations into a slow moving goods train. (24 June 2002)
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Wednesday 23rd of July 1986 (-) — Victim of Kenneth Erskine aka The Stockwell Strangler Florence Tisdall is sexually assaulted and strangled by Kenneth Erskine aka The Stockwell Strangler. Tisdall was partly deaf and blind and could only move around with the aid of a walking frame. On this day she had managed a rare trip out to have her hair done especially for the occasion of the wedding of the Duke and Duchess of York which was being broadcast on television that day. She was Erskine's last victim.