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King's Cross railway accident: Locomotive slipped to stand in tunnel, train rolled back into station. [193] 30 September 1945: 43: 64: Bourne End rail crash: excess speed on turnout. 10 November 1945: 0: 23: Woking crash: Driver and other errors Passenger train collides with rear of second passenger train. [194] 31 December 1945: 3: 10
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On 4 April 1958, a parcels train overran signals and was in collision with an electric multiple unit at Gloucester Road Junction, Croydon, Surrey. Six people were injured. [2] On 20 May 1958, a passenger train was in collision with a locomotive and brake van at Arkleston Junction, Paisley, Renfrewshire due to errors by the driver of the ...
When British Rail implemented the TOPS system for managing their operating stock, ships capable of carrying rail vehicles were incorporated into the system as Class 99. In order to circumvent restrictions of the application software, these ships were entered on TOPS as locomotives, 'hauling' the trains which they carried on board.
4 April – Czech Republic – 2021 Světec train crash: Express freight train No. 54334 of ORLEN Unipetrol Doprava (UNIDO), hauled by locomotive 753.740 collided with ČD Cargo freight train No. 66403, hauled by locomotive 123.023, at Světec Station. The driver of the ČD Cargo train jumped out of the locomotive and survived, but the driver ...
The locomotives of the Vale of Rheidol Railway, from the 2 ft narrow gauge Vale of Rheidol Railway (VoR) in Mid-Wales, had been inherited with the rest of the GWR stock in 1948. BR however continued to use steam locomotives on the line as a commercial heritage railway .
January 4 – Germany – An express runs into the back of a stationary train between Hanover and Wunstorf, killing 20 people and seriously injuring another 20. [32]January 22 – Canada – The locomotive engineer and the fireman of a Canadian Pacific Railway passenger train are killed at Tapley, Ontario when their engine leaves the tracks pulling the baggage car and a passenger coach with it.
January 12 – British India – At Hazaribagh on the East Indian Railway, saboteurs remove a 36-foot (11 m) length of rail. The locomotive of the Dehra Dun Express from Howrah actually makes it across the gap and regains the rails, but the track is sufficiently damaged that the rest of the train is derailed, with 21 deaths and 71 injuries. A ...