Timeline: Rail crashes in the UK
The train crash on a level crossing in Berkshire joins a long list of fatal accidents to have blighted the UK's rail network over the past 50 years.
7 juli 2003: Tog
First Great Western kollideret med minibus i en overkørsel mellem Pershore og Evesham, Worcestershire. 3 personer i minibussen, alle immigrerede landbrugsarbejdere, omkom.
10. maj 2002: Seven people were killed and over 70 injured when a WAGN service from London to King's Lynn crashed at
Potters Bar, in Hertfordshire. Three of the four carriages derailed and one ploughed along the platform.
28. februar 2001: A GNER train from York to London King's Cross crashed at
Great Heck, north Yorkshire. A Land Rover, driven by Gary Hart, had slid down an embankment from the M62 into the path of the express train, which was derailed and then collided with a freight train. Hart was later jailed for five years for causing death by dangerous driving.
17. oktober 2000: Four people were killed and a further 35 hurt when a GNER London to Leeds train, travelling at over 100mph, derailed at
Hatfield, Hertfordshire. A broken rail was found to be the „substantial“ cause of the accident.
5. oktober 1999: Thirty-one people were killed when two trains collided at
Ladbroke Grove, just outside Paddington station, in London, after one of them had gone through a red signal.
19. september 1997: A speeding express from Swansea to Paddington crashed into an empty freight train at
Southall, killing seven people.
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31. januar 1995: A guard was killed and 30 other people injured in an accident at Aisgill on the Settle to Carlisle line.
15. oktober 1994: 5 personer omkom og 13 kvæstet i frontal kollision efter at en lokomotivfører havde passeret stop-signal nær Cowden, Kent.
21. juli 1991: Four people died and 22 were hurt as two trains collided head on at Newton station, near Glasgow.
8. januar 1991: Two passengers died and more than 240 were injured when a train ran into buffers at London's Cannon Street station.
June 1975: Two trains, including the Euston to Glasgow sleeper service, collided at Nuneaton station, Warwickshire, killing six people and injuring 67.
January 1968: A packed passenger train crashed into a low-loader being driven across a level crossing, at Hixon, near Stafford, killing 11 people and seriously injuring 27.
12 October 1952: When two express trains collided at Harrow and Wealdstone, in north west London, and a third train ran into the wreckage, 112 people were killed and 340 hurt.
# 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 200 people.
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