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Terminology (AU, NA, NZ, UK) Transport portal: This is the list of rail accident lists. Lists. By year ... By death toll; Terrorist incidents; See also. Trains portal;
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 ...
Blackheath Tunnel. [63] 7 June 1865: 11: 30: Rednal rail crash: Excursion train failed to see warning flag for track maintenance. [64] 9 June 1865: 10: 49: Staplehurst rail crash: Train ran over bridge where rails removed for work. Charles Dickens was a passenger. [65] 9 June 1866: 2: 2: Welwyn Tunnel rail crash: Collision and fire in tunnel ...
The Waterloo Tunnel in Liverpool, England, is a former railway tunnel, 852 yd (779 m) long, which opened in 1849. Its western end was at 53.414829, -2.994385, [ 1 ] underneath Pall Mall.
The following list of disasters in Great Britain and Ireland is a list of major disasters (excluding acts of war [a]) which relate to the United Kingdom, Ireland or the Isle of Man, or to the states that preceded them, or that involved their citizens, in a definable incident or accident such as a shipwreck, where the loss of life was forty or more.
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Eurostar services have begun running as normal again after flooded tunnels brought 24 hours of travel chaos. Millions of gallons of water have been pumped out since Friday and both tunnels are now ...
This is a list of accidents and disasters by death toll. It shows the number of fatalities associated with various explosions , structural fires , flood disasters , coal mine disasters , and other notable accidents caused by negligence connected to improper architecture , planning , construction , design , and more.