Is this the Voyager 1 probe which, after months of spouting gibberish back to Earth, has gone back to intelligent messages ?
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yorkshirehornet
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Ok. a few clues. A famous rail crash (or rather derailment) which killed 10 and badly injured 40. After having cared for all the injured the manuscript was recovered from the ruined train. The manuscript was not the complete book but a decisive part of it - a book which was the last of its kind (completed that is). The rail disaster was very well known at the time - so well known that any of your common mates down the pub might have known of it 
Is this the Staplehurst rail crash that Charles Dickens was travelling on? The last novel he completed was, Our Mutual Friend, so was it part of that?
yorkshirehornet
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Yes Frenchie - I thought that common mates was a rather corny way of describing it ! It was the first 16 episodes of Our mutual Friend - after helping as many of his fellow passengers as possible Dickens then returned to the devastated train to recover his works - this was in 1865 at Staplehurst in Kent. Over to you.
Thanks cologne. A bit hot to think of a sensible question, so a bit of trivia. How did a bird delay an event for 41 years?
A clue or two might be needed here. The type of bird was the subject of a famous TV sketch. This bird prevented someone from receiving the recognition he deserved for 41 years due to its bad behaviour.
Is this the parrot that delayed a man's graduation from Bristol University because it had caused damage to his student accommodation - and he left without paying the bill?
Exactly! The £62 debt was wiped out so he could graduate on the same day as his son.
Cheers ofh,
Which Watford goalkeeper once saved a penalty from 'Wor Jackie' Milburn?
He wasn't playing for Watford at the time - was playing for Sheffield Wednesday - but his captain that day, who berated him for saving it, later became his captain at Watford.