Show more Show more Holton Although installation had been agreed after the Harrow and Wealdstone rail crash in 1952, priority was being given to main-line routes controlled by semaphore signals. [a] Second worst, and the worst in England, was the 1952 Harrow and Wealdstone rail crash, which killed 112 people and injured 340. John McDonald or Macdonald of A Company, 1/7th Royal Scots, was a journeyman upholsterer, who lived withhis family at228 Easter Road, Edinburgh. Newspapers reported the tragedy in Britain, and soon soldiers overseas learned of the terrible events. Tattenhall Junction, near Chester, Cheshire: School excursion train derailed; buckled track. "I realised I was lying in the floor of the coach with someone lying on my legs," he says. Maidstone East station, Kent: Freight train passed signal at danger and ran into rear of stationary passenger train; error by. Casualty Trends; Railroad List; Train Miles and Passengers; Accident/Incident and Employee on Duty Rates; Accident Data as Reported by Railroads; Operational Data On the evening of 4 December 1957 there was heavy fog in the London area, and trains were running late. Dezember 1957 auch eine Brcke Ardsley: Collision due to inadequate signalling arrangements. Safety by Injury. Locomotive Wiki is a FANDOM Lifestyle Community. Col Druitt's official report into the accident gives the figure as 227 (he did not include the 4 children), but he compiled the report very soon after the accident and gave the number of troops killed as 215 which was later revised downwards by the army to 214, the figure which appears on the memorial in the, Rosbottom, Ernest (1987) Burscough The Story of an Agricultural Village. "Massive cranes were brought in, roadways had to be laid in the middle of farmers' fields, and this was in the middle of the foot and mouth epidemic to make matters more difficult," he says. Watford: Landslide, embankment slid onto track. Ms Agnes Adams (Embleton Road, Ladywell) Mr Richard Allchin (Tonbridge) Mr Joseph Allen (unknown) Mr Leonard Ambrose (Tonbridge) Ms Rosemary Gillian Ashley The Dee bridge after its collapse, 24 May 1847, Shipton-on-Cherwell Disaster, 24 December 1874, Fallen Tay Bridge from the north, 28 December 1879, Royal Mail train crashes into the back of a loaded coal train at Lawrence Hill station, 1 November 2000. The accident on the London Underground with the highest loss of life was the Moorgate tube crash which occurred on the Northern City Line in 1975 (at the time it was part of the London Underground Network). This lists significant accidents involving railway rolling stock, including crashes, fires and incidents of crew being overcome by locomotive emissions. National Records of Scotland, AD15/15/29/1/1/2-3. near Llanelli- Derailment due to excessive speed. The initial collision was caused by mistakes made by the railway signalmen. His parents were dead and he was single, so in his will he provided for his older sisters Meg and Jean, his niece Nan (Agnes) Innes, and his brother Colin. The braking was too late to prevent the devastating impact that came next. //-->,