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[[File:Staplehurst rail crash.jpg|thumb|Post la trajnakcidento de Staplehurst.]]
On 9 June 1865, while returning from Paris with Ellen Ternan, Dickens was involved in the [[Staplehurst rail crash]]. The train's first seven carriages plunged off a [[cast iron]] bridge that was under repair. The only [[first class travel|first-class]] carriage to remain on the track was the one in which Dickens was travelling. Before rescuers arrived, Dickens tended and comforted the wounded and the dying with a flask of brandy and a hat refreshed with water, and saved some lives. Before leaving, he remembered the unfinished manuscript for ''[[Our Mutual Friend]]'', and he returned to his carriage to retrieve it.<ref>{{harvnb|Ackroyd|1990|pp=959–961}}.</ref>
Dickens later used the experience of the crash as material for his short [[ghost story]], "[[The Signal-Man]]", in which the central character has a premonition of his own death in a rail crash. He also based the story on several previous [[Lists of rail accidents|rail accidents]], such as the [[Clayton Tunnel rail crash]] of 1861. Dickens managed to avoid an appearance at the [[inquest]] to avoid disclosing that he had been travelling with Ternan and her mother, which would have caused a scandal.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://omf.ucsc.edu/dickens/staplehurst-disaster.html|title=The Staplehurst Disaster|accessdate=28 February 2015}}</ref> After the crash Dickens was nervous when travelling by train, and would use alternative means when available.<ref name="UOC">{{cite web | url=http://omf.ucsc.edu/dickens/staplehurst-disaster.html | title=The Staplehurst Disaster | publisher=University of California: Santa Cruz | accessdate=15 November 2012}}</ref> In 1868 he wrote, “I have sudden vague rushes of terror, even when riding in a hansom cab, which are perfectly unreasonable but quite insurmountable." Dickens's son, Henry, recalled, "I have seen him sometimes in a railway carriage when there was a slight jolt. When this happened he was almost in a state of panic and gripped the seat with both hands."<ref name="UOC"/>
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