From Terry Deary's new Victorian Tales series, the story of one of the world's worst rail disasters.
The true story of the Staplehurst railway disaster, one of world's worst rail accidents which occurred during Victorian times. A crowded train ran at full speed into a section of track that had been taken up for repair. Charles Dickens, who was on board the train, fought heroically to save lives, and found time to save the handwritten manuscript of Our Mutual Friend.
