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Britain's rail disaster history


List of rail accidents in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

This lists significant accidents involving railway rolling stock, including crashes, fires and incidents of crew being overcome by locomotive emissions.

Quintinshill rail disaster - Wikipedia

It resulted in the deaths of over 200 people and remains the worst rail disaster in British history. Quintinshill rail disaster. A burning carriage in ...

Quintinshill Disaster 22 May 1915 | National Records of Scotland

The deaths of 230 people make Quintinshill the biggest railway disaster to have occurred in Britain. Soldier victims. Of the Royal Scots battalion three ...

The UK's Worst Train Crashes - Train Enthusiast

Quintinshill in Dumfriesshire, Scotland, was the scene of the worst rail disasters in the history of trains in the UK, which resulted in the deaths of 226 ...

Ladbroke Grove rail disaster | London Fire Brigade

In 1999 the Ladbroke Grove rail disaster – also known as the Paddington rail crash - killed 31 people and injured hundreds.

Quintinshill, the Worst Railway Disaster in British History - YouTube

Railroads played a critical role for the United Kingdom in the Great War. But the increased burden on the nation's railways had its cost.

The Quintinshill Disaster and how workers were viewed after a ...

The Quintinshill disaster was and remains today, the deadliest rail disaster in British history. It resulted in the deaths of 226, with 246 ...

Watch The Quintinshill Rail Disaster on BBC Select

Reinvestigating the deadliest rail crash in British history ... In May 1915, a train collision in Scotland became Britain's deadliest-ever rail crash. Involving a ...

Train wrecks, other disasters, and danger on the rails

Train wrecks, other disasters, and danger on the rails · The first railway fatality — the death of William Huskisson (1830) · The Rednal train wreck on the ...

Historical Railway Accidents Incidents and Disasters: UK and Ireland

A group remembering the disasters, incidents, accidents and the staff who worked together with the aftermath: UK and Ireland.

Worst Rail Accidents in the UK - HubPages

The Cowden rail crash occurred on 15October 1994, around 350 metres southeast of CowdenStation in the English county of Kent. There was a head-oncollision ...

Timeline: Fatal UK rail crashes - Home - BBC News

The UK's worst train crash was on 22 May 1915, when a wooden troop train and a passenger train collided at Quintinshill near Gretna Green, killing more than ...

How one of the UK's deadliest rail crashes could have been avoided

Paddington Rail Crash: James Nesbitt explores some of Britain's most tragic disasters, starting with the 1999 rail accident at Ladbroke Grove in London.

The Clapham Junction Rail Disaster 1988 (Documentary) - YouTube

Disaster #Railway #History Learn while you're at home with Plainly Difficult! In the morning rush our of the 12 December 1988, a crowded ...

Britain's rail disaster history | Ladbroke Grove train crash 1999

The worst train disaster in a decade occurred when two trains collided near London's Paddington station killing 31 people.

Memorial for child victims of UK's worst rail crash

A memorial is being unveiled to three children who died near Gretna Green in Britain's worst ever rail disaster. The "lost children of Maryhill" were among ...

BRITISH STEAM RAIL DISASTERS - YouTube

Comments188 · War On The Railways · The Classic Collection - The Steam Railway VHS Documentary · Disaster - Moorgate train disaster - 28/02/1975.

Investigating Britain's Worst Ever Railway Disaster - YouTube

In Fife, Tori explores a wreck near the scene of one of Britain's worst ever railway disasters. Subscribe to Channel 4 Documentary: ...

Gretna: Britain's Worst Railway Disaster, 1915: Amazon.co.uk

It is quite surprising that this book has never been updated and reprinted. Quintinshill remains the worst rail disaster in British history and touched ...

A train crash 150 years ago is helping to bring the forgotten deaths ...

In 1874, 211 passengers died on Britain and Ireland's railways. In contrast, 788 workers were killed. This proportion continued deep into the ...


Christian Wolmar

British journalist and author https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRBZg9gSZ1h_6pioyOnlzhaIMkY0rRrUE4FNKKEVQiT2SasWcKu

Christian Tage Forter Wolmar is a British journalist, author, railway historian and Labour Party campaigner. He is known for his commentary on transport, especially as a pundit on Britain's railway industry and as host of the Calling All Stations transport podcast.