• The Norwood Junction railway crash occurred on 1 May 1891, when a cast-iron underbridge over Portland Road, 60 yards (55 m) north-east of Norwood Junction...
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    Norwood Junction railway station is a National Rail station in South Norwood in the London Borough of Croydon, south London, and is in Travelcard Zone...
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  • the 7 July 2005 London bombings are not included. The worst accident was the Quintinshill rail disaster in Scotland in 1915 with 226 dead and 246 injured...
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    collapses occurred, however, culminating in the Norwood Junction rail accident of 1891. Thousands of cast-iron rail underbridges were eventually replaced by...
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  • United Kingdom – Norwood Junction rail accident: A London Brighton and South Coast Railway passenger train derailed near Norwood Junction, London when a...
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  • have been four railway accidents at Potters Bar in England. Those in 1898 and 1946 were signals passed at danger. The accident in 2002 led to substantial...
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    under-bridges. Little further action was taken until the 1891 Norwood Junction rail accident of a first class train which injured 1 businessman because of...
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    the same DC three-rail system. The Rickmansworth branch was connected to the Main Line, via two through platforms, with a junction to the north; these...
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  • Inverythan crash and the Norwood Junction rail accident in 1891. Thereafter, the vast majority of cast-iron underbridges on the rail network were eventually...
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    several rail lines. The name is not given to any rail junction near the station which, without end-on intercompany junctions, are: Falcon Junction at the...
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  • The Burscough Junction Station Crash occurred on 15 January 1880 at the Burscough Junction railway station on the Liverpool to Preston railway line in...
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  • Llantrisant rail accident Details Date 12 August 1893 Location Llantrisant Country Wales Line Taff Vale Railway Cause Locomotive suspension failure Statistics...
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    London, Brighton and South Coast Railway (category Rail transport in East Sussex)
    May 1891, in the accident known as the Norwood Junction rail accident, a cast-iron bridge collapsed under a train at Norwood Junction, Surrey. Six people...
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  • event, which could easily have been fatal". List of British rail accidents List of rail accidents (worldwide) Google maps satellite view of the location David...
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    Town rail accident Drawing of the accident Details Date 2 September 1861 Location Kentish Town station Country England Line Hampstead Junction Railway...
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    Wootton bridge collapse (category Railway accidents and incidents in Warwickshire)
    express. Although no-one was killed, the furore caused by the Norwood Junction rail accident led to a survey of all under-bridges. Several thousand were...
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    withstand imposed loads. (It was noted that the day of the Barnsley Junction accident was very cold and the ballast under the railway sleepers was frozen...
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    Recorder. 31 May 1873. "Fire at Willesden Junction". Belfast Newsletter. 6 April 1874. "Accident at Willesden Junction". Hull Packet. 24 December 1879. "Inquests"...
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    The Esholt Junction rail crash occurred on Thursday 9 June 1892, at the point at which the Otley and Ilkley Joint Railway from Ilkley divides, one branch...
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    Connecting Belt Railroad northwest to a junction near Elmwood Place. The railway began to climb again at East Norwood, where it crossed the Marietta and Cincinnati...
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    enginemen and five passengers were killed. The subsequent Board of Trade accident investigation showed that the down platform sloped unnecessarily steeply...
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  • The Chelford rail accident occurred on 22 December 1894 at Chelford railway station. The stationmaster was supervising shunting operations, during which...
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    1°09′13″W / 53.5119°N 1.1537°W / 53.5119; -1.1537 The Hexthorpe rail accident occurred on 16 September 1887 at Hexthorpe railway platform some 1.5...
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    Dee Bridge disaster (category Railway accidents and incidents in Cheshire)
    bridge collapse and the Bull bridge accident. Similar failures occurred in the Inverythan crash and the Norwood Junction crash. All the structures used untrussed...
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    the fifth-deadliest railway accident in the history of the United Kingdom, as well as the second deadliest rail accident in Scottish history, being surpassed...
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    (including L T C Rolt Red for Danger, a standard compendium of British rail accidents) talk of the arm being frozen in the slot. The Edinburgh Evening News...
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  • shunting Stairfoot rail accident – 12 September 1870 – Poorly secured wagons runaway due to rough shunting Murulla railway accident (26 killed) – 13 September...
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    Brighton Main Line (category Rail transport in Surrey)
    Selhurst) are managed by London Overground. Both New Cross Gate and Norwood Junction have five operational platforms, but the intermediate stations have...
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    Tunnel rail crash occurred on Sunday 25 August 1861, five miles (8 km) from Brighton on the south coast of England. At the time it was the worst accident on...
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  • the Armagh rail disaster of 1889 (80 killed) and the Ballymacarrett rail crash of 1945 (23 killed). It is also the worst railway accident to have occurred...
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