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Slough rail accident: Express passed signal at danger and collided with local train standing in station. 1 October 1900: 1 2 Virginia Water, Surrey. Signalman forgot that passenger train was on the up platform and allowed a horse box train into the station resulting in a collision. [105] 7 October 1900: 0 51 Twickenham.
The London Underground network carries more than a billion passengers a year. [1] It has one fatal accident for every 300 million journeys. [2] Five accidents causing passenger deaths have occurred due to train operation in nearly 80 years since the London Passenger Transport Board was formed, the last being at Moorgate in 1975; other fatalities have been due to wartime and terrorist bombings ...
February 22 – Colombia – A passenger train from Buenaventura to Cali collided head-on on a single track, near its destination, with a freight train; 40 people were killed, all in the first 4 cars of the passenger train, and 67 injured. [33] [34] March 3 – Italy – Castel Bolognese train disaster.
On 9 August 1951, an express passenger train was derailed at Doncaster, Yorkshire due to defective track. Fourteen people died and twelve were injured. On 17 August 1951, two electric multiple units were in a head-on collision at Newcastle Central station, Northumberland after one of them departed against a danger signal.
Railway station. list; Railway track. Maintenance; Track gauge; Service and rolling ... NA, NZ, UK) Transport portal: This is the list of rail accident lists. Lists ...
October 13 – United Kingdom – Longmoor Military Railway, Hampshire, United Kingdom: A passenger train hauled by Class 8F 2-8-0 WD512 is involved in a head-on collision with a permanent-way train hauled by 0-6-0 diesel shunter WD877 Bari between Weaversdown Halt and Liss Forest Road stations. Six soldiers are killed and eight are injured.
Many passengers jump from the moving train rather than wait for the station. Altogether 48 people are killed. [6] May 27 – United Kingdom – A London and North Eastern Railway passenger train overruns signals and collides head-on with another passenger train at Fakenham East station, Norfolk. One person is killed and fifteen are injured. [9]
The train is run into by a following freight train due to the failure of the guard to act to protect the line to the rear of the broken-down train. Eighteen people are killed. United Kingdom – The boiler of a Midland Railway locomotive explodes near Bristol, Gloucestershire whilst the locomotive is hauling a freight train. [68]