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The rail-over-rail bridge being dismantled December 4 – United Kingdom – Lewisham rail crash: A steam train passes a red signal in the fog and ploughs into the back of an electric train. The crash also destroys a support column of a railway bridge, causing parts of the bridge to collapse onto the wreck; fortunately, a train approaching the ...
Dagenham East rail crash: Signal passed at danger in thick fog by passenger train, rear-end collision with preceding passenger train 4 July 1958: 0: 45: Maze Hill station: Signal passed at danger, head-on collision of 4-car EMU from Gravesend Central to Charing Cross with 9-coach empty passenger stock train being shunted by a steam locomotive [232]
English: The badly damaged locomotive of the Perth express train No. 46242 Coronation Class City of Glasgow which was involved in the Harrow and Wealdstone train crash on 8 October 1952. It later went on to be rebuilt and returned to service.
Distress signals are communicated by transmitting radio signals, displaying a visually observable item or illumination, or making a sound audible from a distance. A distress signal indicates that a person or group of people, watercraft, aircraft, or other vehicle is threatened by a serious or imminent danger and requires immediate assistance. [1]:
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The British Rail Derby Lightweight diesel multiple units, were the first such trains to be built en-masse for British Railways. The units were built at BR's Derby Works from 1954 to 1955. The units were built in various formations, including 12 power-twin 2-car units, 84 power-trailer 2-car units, four 4-car units, and two single car units.
At about 12:12 a.m. on August 28, 1991, 34 minutes after leaving Woodlawn, Ray's erratic operation of the train finally led to disaster, as the train heading southbound with approximately 216 passengers, going at nearly 50 miles per hour (80 km/h), too fast for a tripcock to stop the train in time, derailed at the pocket track north of the 14th ...
October 27 – Canada – Canadian Pacific Railway train 4, seven colonist passenger cars derail near Savanne, Ontario as a result of a broken rail. [42] December 23 – United Kingdom – A London and North Eastern Railway express passenger train overruns signals at Belford, Northumberland and collides with a locomotive. [43]