The day Charles Dickens nearly died in horrific Staplehurst rail disaster
Dickens spent his formative years in Chatham and holidayed in Broadstairs and Folkestone
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Staplehurst rail crash engraving in London Illustrated News (Image: Public domain)
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If you speak to anyone from Kent about the county’s legacy, one of the first things they’ll tell you is that it was home to the great Victorian novelist Charles Dickens.