The Abermule train collision was a head-on collision which occurred at Abermule, Montgomeryshire, Wales, on Wednesday, 26 January 1921, killing 17 people...
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this station. Abermule had earlier been the junction for a short branch railway to Kerry, closed in 1956. The Abermule train collision on 26 January 1921...
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2025. Abermule train collision, 1921 collision on the same line 2021 Salisbury rail crash, previous most recent collision between passenger trains in the...
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director. He was a director of the Cambrian Railways and died in the Abermule train collision in January 1921. Lord Herbert was born into, on his father's side...
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A head-on collision is a traffic collision where the front ends of two vehicles such as cars, trains, ships or planes hit each other when travelling in...
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Token (railway signalling) (redirect from Train staff key)
this allowed the issue of two tokens at the same time. In the Abermule train collision of 1921, also on the Cambrian Railways, lax working procedures...
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member of the family to live at the Plas and was killed in the Abermule train collision on the Cambrian Railways, of which he was a director. The house...
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a result of the Beeching Axe. The Abermule train collision was a head-on collision which occurred between Abermule and Newtown on 26 January 1921, killing...
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in 1921. January 26 – Abermule train collision, Wales: faulty operation of single line train tablet leads to head-on collision killing 17 people. April...
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infrastructure, passenger fatalities due to train-related incidents are exceptionally rare. The last train collision that killed more than one person was the...
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January 1921), chairman of the Cambrian Railways, killed in the Abermule train collision Lady Alexandrina Louise Maud Vane-Tempest (8 November 1863 – 31...
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driver of the train from Romney Sands without having seen the token for the section. Comparisons were made with the Abermule train collision in 1921. As...
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debarring the 61 class. One of the class, no. 82, was involved in the Abermule train collision on 26 January 1921. The locomotive was so badly damaged that it...
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Quintinshill rail disaster (redirect from Quintinshill train crash)
trains, and a northbound local passenger train was standing on the southbound main line. The first collision occurred when a southbound troop train travelling...
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all 57 crew on board. 26 January – Abermule train collision: seventeen people are killed when two passenger trains collide head-on in Montgomeryshire...
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– A mail train and goods train collide at Bommidi, killing 30 people and injuring 35. January 26 – United Kingdom – Abermule train collision: a head-on...
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Lord Herbert Vane-Tempest. After Lord Herbert was killed in the Abermule train collision on 26 January 1921, no family members lived there. After the Second...
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Lewisham rail crash (redirect from Lewisham train crash)
would have prevented the collision. On the evening of Wednesday 4 December 1957 there was heavy fog in the London area, and trains were running late. The...
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Cambrian Line (section Abermule 1921)
the single-tracked line between Abermule and Newtown. A westbound stopping train from Whitchurch set off from Abermule without the correct authority, and...
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Clapham Junction rail crash (redirect from Clapham train crash)
sideswiped an empty train travelling in the opposite direction. A total of 35 people died in the collision, while 484 were injured. The collision was the result...
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Harrow and Wealdstone rail crash (redirect from Harrow & Wealdstone train crash)
The Harrow and Wealdstone rail crash was a three-train collision at Harrow and Wealdstone station in Wealdstone, Middlesex (now Greater London) during...
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place in 1921 near Abermule, when there was a head-on collision on the single line, due to slack operating disciplines. The collision resulted in seventeen...
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Purley rail crash (category Train collisions in England)
The Purley station rail crash was a train collision that occurred just to the north of Purley railway station in the London Borough of Croydon on Saturday...
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Southall rail crash (category Train collisions in England)
journeys. The collision occurred as the 10:32 Great Western Trains (GWT) InterCity 125 HST returned from Swansea toward London Paddington. The train was formed...
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Wales – Alfred George Edwards, Bishop of St Asaph 26 January - The Abermule train collision claims 17 lives, including that of the chairman of the rail company...
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Ladbroke Grove rail crash (redirect from Paddington train crash)
automatically set to direct the train away from the path which would cause a collision). This would have routed the train running past SN109 onto the Down...
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instruments and the weather were contributory factors. A head-on collision occurred at Abermule on 26 January 1921, killing 15 passengers, including Lord Herbert...
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St Bedes Junction rail crash (category Train collisions in England)
collision. The gas-lit passenger coaches were then consumed by fire. 81 people were injured. The signalman's failure to notice that the goods train had...
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direction; he mistakenly ordered his train to leave, resulting in a head-on collision. Abermule Oswestry: Head on collision on 18 January 1918. The drivers...
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ran into by a similar train travelling in the opposite direction. The guard of the first train was fatally injured in the collision. Weather leading into...
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