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Yorkshire Train Disaster Multi-Cache

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Hidden : 5/18/2015
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size:   small (small)

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Geocache Description:


 

This cache has been placed in memorium to the people who died or were injured in the crash and in tribute to the rescue workers and miners from the local Manvers pit who arrived first on the scene to give aid when the London to Bradford train overturned down a 30 foot embankment. 

The Doctor Campbell who attended the crash site was a good friend of our family and was my Grandfathers best man at his wedding. As part of his practice he was regularly called to Manvers Colliery to treat the injured and on the 18th May 1948 was called in to treat the injured in the derailment.

The following links give an insight into the reporting of the disaster:

http://www.britishpathe.com/video/yorkshire-train-disaster

http://www.railwaysarchive.co.uk/documents/MoT_WathRoad1948.pdf

The given coordinates will take you to the memorial, an examination of which will provide you with all the clues necessary to complete and find the physical cache.

The cache can be found at 

N53 29.ABC     W001 18.DEF

A = the total number of visible wheel spokes on the memorial.

B = the total number of rivets that would have been on the memorial divided by 10.

C = the 2nd digit of the day of the disaster divided by the 3rd digit of the year of same.

D = the 3rd digit of the number of the train.

E = the number of letters in the first name of the train.

F = the last digit in the year of the accident minus the middle digit of the number of the train.

Congratulations to Mr Truffles for FTF

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Vg ernyyl vf boivbhf.

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)