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ULLESKELF - On November 24th, 1906, while an up empty coal train from York to Gascoigne Wood, consisting of an engine, tender, 60 wagons and a brake van, was standing at Ulleskelf Station, its rear end was run into by the 7 pm up express train from York to Leeds, consisting of engine, tender, and four vehicles. The speed of the passenger train at the time of the collision was probably about 40 miles an hour, and the shock was a severe one. The engine was thrown over on to its side, and both it and the tender were severely damaged; the two leading vehicles of the train were derailed but were only slightly damaged; the two rear vehicles were not derailed and were not injured at all. The brake van and four wagons of the coal train were completely destroyed, whilst three others were seriously damaged. The driver and fireman of the passenger train were both killed instantaneously, whilst the guard and seven passengers were slightly injured. The guard of the coal train was fortunately not in his brake van at the time, so neither he nor any other of the staff of that train were injured. The accident was caused when the driver and fireman of the express passed a danger signal in thick fog.