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At a level crossing, 11 of the 16 cars derail, killing the foreman of a 30-man postal crew and injuring 32 other people. [109] 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 ...
[a] The second worst, and the worst in England's peacetime history, was the 1952 Harrow and Wealdstone rail crash, which killed 112 people and injured 340. [1] The death toll from the 1957 Lewisham rail crash was 90; for the 1889 Armagh rail disaster (the worst in Northern Ireland) it was 80; [2] and for the 1879 Tay Bridge disaster it was 75.
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.
They and the drawbridge tender try to warn the following Pacific Express passenger train, but they are not in time, and the collision and resulting fire kill 22 people. [131] [132] Bangor, Maine, August 8, 1871 9 August – United States – A bridge collapses under a Maine Central Railroad Company passenger train at Bangor, Maine. One person ...
June 3 – Poland – Ślesin, (near Bydgoszcz): A train Kolobrzeg–Warsaw derailed on fatigue rail , killing 12 people and injuring 26. [25] June 4 – Bangladesh – A crowded passenger train from Khulna crashed into a stationary freight train at Jessore after the stationmaster threw the wrong switch, killing 76 people and injuring about 500 ...
The Cartography of York is the history of surveying and creation of maps of the city of York. The following is a list of historic maps of York: c.1610: John Speed's map [1] 1624: Samuel Parsons' map of Dringhouses [2] c1682: Captain James Archer's Plan of the Greate, Antient & Famous Citty of York [3]
1892 Thirsk rail crash November 2 – United Kingdom – Thirsk rail crash, Thirsk, Yorkshire, England: a signalman suffering from distress and lack of sleep due to a family emergency forgot about a freight train standing outside his signal box. Eight people were killed and 39 injured.
February 13 – United States – More than 50 people were injured in Brooklyn, New York when two Long Island Rail Road trains collide after one train operator missed a stop signal. [ 13 ] February 27 – United States – Porter, Indiana : Over 37 people were killed when the Canadian on the Michigan Central Railroad and the Interstate Express ...