The Grantham rail accident occurred on 19 September 1906. An evening Sleeping-Car and Mail train of the Great Northern Railway, running from London Kings...
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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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This is a list of rail accidents from 1900 to 1909. 1900s 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 See also References Sources External links...
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Grantham Journal. England. 7 November 1868. Retrieved 28 June 2017 – via British Newspaper Archive. "Fatal Accident at Grantham Station". Grantham Journal...
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result of the Grantham rail accident on the Great Northern Railway (Great Britain) when a sleeping car train is derailed passing through Grantham railway station...
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East Coast Main Line (redirect from Grantham–Peterborough line)
a world record speed for a steam locomotive, 126 mph (203 km/h) on the Grantham-to-Peterborough section. In 1948, the railways were nationalised and operated...
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The Invergowrie rail accident happened in Invergowrie, Scotland, on 22 October 1979. The accident killed five people and injured 51 others. The 08:44...
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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...
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Schickler, 25 Chia-Ching Wu, 30 List of rail accidents in the United Kingdom Brétigny-sur-Orge train crash – a 2013 accident in France with similar circumstances...
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The Polmont rail accident, also known as the Polmont rail disaster, occurred on 30 July 1984 to the west of Polmont, near Falkirk, in Scotland. A westbound...
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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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The Shrewsbury rail accident occurred on 15 October 1907. An overnight sleeping-car and mail train from Manchester to the West of England derailed on...
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Zealand Railway Accidents (Wellington NZ, Grantham House, 1986) ISBN 978-1-86934-008-7 (p. 181; list of 20 most serious rail accidents by deaths to 1953)...
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"The Southall Rail Accident Inquiry Report" (PDF). HSE Books. Retrieved 7 November 2011. "Seven die as HST ploughs into stone empties". Rail Magazine. No...
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Two rail accidents have occurred near Castlecary, Scotland. One of these was in 1937 and one in 1968. Both events involved rear-end collisions, and caused...
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December 2016). "Deep Impact". Rail. No. 815. Peterborough: Bauer Media. pp. 54–57. ISSN 0953-4563. Seymour, R.J. Railway Accident in the Severn Tunnel. H.M...
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Grantham (/ˈɡrænθəm/) is a market town in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England, situated on the banks of the River Witham and bounded to...
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The Ladbroke Grove rail crash (also known as the Paddington rail crash) was a rail accident which occurred on 5 October 1999 at Ladbroke Grove in London...
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riots. 19 September – Grantham rail accident: a Great Northern Railway sleeping car train suffers derailment passing through Grantham station at excessive...
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The British Rail Class 114 diesel multiple units were built by BR Derby from September 1956 to July 1957. Forty-nine 2-car units were built, numbered E50001-49...
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coal wagonway. While such tramway accidents are not generally listed as rail accidents (note the lack of accidents listed for the next 163 years) this...
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resulting from the accident. The Board of the Railway declined this offer, considering it unfair to their workers. The Trans-Pennine rail route of the Manchester...
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Jones, Richard (2010). Lockington: Crash at the Crossing. "Lockington Rail Accident". Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). 28 July 1986. cc559–64. Stott Report:...
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The accident was the second in a series of three derailments due to excessive speed at night in a 16-month period; the others were at Grantham in 1906...
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Tangiwai disaster (redirect from Tangiwai rail disaster)
not erupting at the time. The disaster remains New Zealand's worst rail accident. On 24 December 1953, the 3 p.m. express train from Wellington to Auckland...
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bingo club he frequented. List of rail accidents in the United Kingdom Lists of rail accidents "Engineer dies in rail crash". The Vincennes Sun-Commercial...
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colour light signals. By 1977, one third of British Rail tracks had been fitted with AWS. After the accident, experts criticised the local layout of the track:...
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The Chumhill railway accident occurred 26 February 1913 in England, killing two. The Lynton & Barnstaple Railway maintained an exemplary safety record...
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The Slough rail accident happened on 16 June 1900 at Slough railway station on the Great Western Main Line when an express train from London Paddington...
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2P55, the 21:55 Newton-Glasgow Central Cathcart Circle service, a British Rail Class 303 unit driven by Reginald McEwan left the "down" platform at Newton...
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