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CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews last night's TV: Computer graphics made this train catastrophe look like a video game
CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: At St James's cemetery in Liverpool, there's a monument to Tory MP William Huskisson - killed in a celebrity rail disaster.
At St James’s cemetery in Liverpool, there’s a monument to Tory MP William Huskisson — killed in a spectacular double-celebrity rail disaster. A high-speed, long-distance train on a 25-hour journey ploughed into stationary goods carriages and jack-knifed into the path of an express travelling in the opposite direction. Snatches of news footage from the rescue efforts, which went on all night and long into the following day, did illustrate the sheer scale of the disaster, but these were too brief.
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