The UK's Worst Train Crashes

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

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 ...

The UK's Worst Train Crashes - Train Enthusiast

1915 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 ...

Quintinshill Disaster 22 May 1915 | National Records of Scotland

The accident. At 6.45 on the morning of 22 May 1915, a troop train carrying soldiers of the 1/7th Battalion Royal Scots crashed into a stationary local ...

What caused Britain's worst train crash of the 21st century?

Britain's worst rail crash of the 21st century saw 10 people dead including the drivers of two trains at Great Heck near Selby, ...

Ladbroke Grove rail disaster: 25 years on since the crash - BBC

It is 25 years since two passenger trains collided at Ladbroke Grove, two miles west of London's Paddington station.

One Of The World's Worst Rail Crashes, In Harrow | Londonist

This was — and remains — the worst UK rail disaster in peacetime. Only the Gretna Green crash of 1915 had more deaths. Of Harrow's 121 ...

Worst Rail Accidents in the UK - HubPages

The SevernTunnelrailaccident occurred on 7 December 1991 when the 08:30 London Paddington to Cardiff Central HST was stopped at a signal guarding the entrance ...

The last ride for hundreds of soldiers: The worst train crash in the UK

A railway accident at Quintinshill, Scotland, in which several trains collided on 22 May 1915, left 227 dead and more than 240 injured.

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.

Remembering the Ufton Nervet rail crash in Berkshire 20 years on

Survivors of one of the worst rail crashes this century will gather this evening to mark the 20th anniversary of the incident at Ufton ...

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

October 5 1999: The worst train disaster in a decade occurred when two trains collided near London's Paddington station killing 31 people.

TIL that the worst rail disaster in the UK was at Quintinshill ... - Reddit

The worst rail disaster in the UK was at Quintinshill in 1915, where a southbound train collided with a stationary northbound train that was parked on the ...

Commuter Train Crashes into Station | Plainly Difficult - YouTube

... train ended up wedged between the station platforms and building structures, at Potters Bar UK. Thank you to Jago: https://www.youtube.com ...

Deadliest UK train crashes - victims 'shot' to stop them burning alive ...

The UK has seen some truly harrowing train crashes where hundreds of men, women and children have lost their lives - here we take a look back at some of the ...

On this day - Remembering one of the UK's worst rail crashes

[162] Shortage of train crews on Great Western Railway - ongoing dis... ... [53] 0635 Salisbury - Worcester Foregate Str thru Melksham keeps ru...

UK TRAIN CRASHES - PADDINGTON RAIL DISASTER - YouTube

... the UK's worst rail disaster in recent memory. In this programme from "Seconds from Disaster" every avenue and conceivable possibility is ...

UK's worst rail crash at Quintinshill remembered - Friends of the Rail

A new memorial overlooking the scene of the UK's worst rail disaster is being unveiled. The commemorative plaque has been installed at Quintinshill Bridge.

Rail accidents chronology | UK news - The Guardian

Rail accidents chronology ; Charlton · July 7, 2003 · The London to Hereford service struck a minibus on the track ; Potters Bar · May 10, 2002 · The ...

Where was the worst underground train disaster? - Quora

The Moorgate tube crash occurred on 28 February 1975 at 8:46 am on the London Underground's Northern City Line; 43 people died and 74 were injured.