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The stopping service, composed of 10 cars of elderly Class 415 and Class 416 units 5618, 5484 and 6227, departed from Sevenoaks at 07:58, and had over 800 passengers on board after passing through the busy interchange at London Bridge. At 08:44 it collided with the buffer stop at the Cannon Street terminus within the City of London. The fifth ...
13 April 1978 – Budapest, Hungary – commuter train overruns a buffer stop owing to brake failure and crashes into the station building. 16 killed, 25 injured. [7] 8 January 1991 – Cannon Street station rail crash, London – 2 killed, 200+ injured – commuter train hits buffer stops.
London and North Eastern Railway ... 5 May 1969: Closed [1] Snettisham was a railway station on ... In the garden of nearby "Granary Cottage" stands the buffer stop ...
2002 - a train collided with the buffers due to low adhesion. There were no injuries. [13] 12 October 2021 – an 8-car Class 710 train (headed by 710124) forming a London Overground service from Liverpool Street failed to stop at the buffers at the end of Platform 2, crashing through them and lifting the front car off the tracks. Seventy-five ...
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 ...
Sudbury railway station is the northern ... of British Rail, the station became part of the London and ... when a Class 156 train ran into the buffer stop at Sudbury ...
July 1939 – a Scarborough-bound train departed the station against the signals and derailed on the siding. [22] October 1961 – a ballast train descending the 1-in-43 bank from Hawsker ran out of control, and the signaller diverted the train onto the siding, which resulted in the buffer-stop being pushed 40 yards (37 m) from the end of the line.
A Class 171 diesel multiple unit at the buffer stop at the current Uckfield station, opened on 13 May 1991 [48] [115] Electrification of the Hurst Green Junction–Uckfield section of the Oxted line, currently operated by Class 171 diesel multiple units, was identified as a priority by Network Rail in 2022.