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The Quintinshill rail disaster was a multi-train rail crash which occurred on 22 May 1915 outside the Quintinshill signal box near Gretna Green in Dumfriesshire, Scotland. It resulted in the deaths of over 200 people and remains the worst rail disaster in British history .
The worst accident was the Quintinshill rail disaster in Scotland in 1915 with 226 dead and 246 injured. [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 Armagh rail disaster happened on 12 June 1889 near Armagh, County Armagh, in Ireland, [1] when a crowded Sunday school excursion train had to negotiate a steep incline; the steam locomotive was unable to complete the climb and the train stalled. The train crew decided to divide the train and take forward the front portion, leaving the rear ...
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.
On 30 January 1958, a passenger train overran signals and was in a rear-end collision with another at Dagenham station, Essex. Ten people died and 89 were injured. On 16 February 1958, a passenger train is in a rear-end collision with a light engine at Ince Moss Junction, Lancashire due to errors by a signalman and the driver of the light ...
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The train was the 15-coach overnight Perth to London Euston express hauled by LMS Royal Scot ... making it Britain's joint seventh worst rail disaster in terms of ...
A Spanish train driver and a former traffic safety chief at national rail infrastructure operator ADIF were sentenced on Friday to two-and-a-half years in prison over a train disaster that killed ...