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Pillars of flame from vent shafts 8 and 9 at the height of the fire. | | dangerous goods | train | Summit Tunnel | Greater Manchester | West Yorkshire | Littleborough | Todmorden | England | locomotives | 20 December | 1984 | petrol | tankers | axle | bearing | locomotive | ballast | telephone | Greater Manchester | West Yorkshire | Looking south along the upline track, showing petrol tankers 11 and 12 at the north end of the train. | | breathing apparatus | ventilation shafts | spall | Close-up of vent shaft 8; the tree and dirt road to the right of the shaft give a sense of scale. | | lava | volcano | oxygen | river Roch | Todmorden | 7 January | 1985 | petrol | British Rail | Tanker 9, crowned with glassy deposits formed by bricks in the shaft above; the bricks melted, dripped down and solidified on top of the tanker. | | vitrified | Channel Tunnel fire | megawatts | Salang tunnel fire | Afghanistan | public house | George Stephenson | ISBN 1-870706-01-3 | ISBN 0-9520083-2-7 | Coordinates | Categories | Railway accidents in England | Industrial disasters | Fires in England | Train and subway fires | Railway accidents in 1984 | 1984 in England | Disasters in Yorkshire | 20th century fires |
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