GoKawiilResearchers redate earliest known space weather railway disruption in Exeter
A team led by Jim Wild of Lancaster University, publishing in Space Weather, re-examined an 1871 Nature report describing a magnetic disturbance that delayed trains in Exeter, England, previously dated to 1841. The researchers concluded that date was likely a transcription error, and the actual rail disruption occurred years later, meaning the Carrington Event of 1859 need not be displaced as the earliest documented case of severe geomagnetic interference with British rail signaling.