**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. {{ :jernbaner:potters_bar.jpg|Potters Bar}}
  *[[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 afsporing|Hatfield]], Hertfordshire. A broken rail was found to be the "substantial" cause of the accident.{{ :jernbaner:hatfield.jpg|Hatfield}}
  *[[5. oktober]] [[1999]]: Thirty-one people were killed when two trains collided at [[Ladbroke Grove kollisionen|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 ulykken|Southall]], killing seven people.
  *[[8. august]] [[1996]]: One person was killed and 69 people were injured when a train collided with a stationary passenger train at [[Watford kollision|Watford South Junction in Hertfordshire]].

  *[[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.

  *August 1990: A train driver was killed and 35 injured at Stafford station in a two-train crash.

  *6 March 1989: Two suburban electric trains in Glasgow collided head-on on a single track and two people died.

  *4 March 1989: Five people died and more than 90 were injured when two trains collided outside Purley station, in south London.

  *[[12. december]] [[1988]]: In the worst train accident of recent years, 35 people died at [[kollision ved Clapham Junction|Clapham Junction]] in a rush-hour collision involving three trains.

  *November 1988: A train driver was killed and 18 passengers hurt when a commuter train ploughed into a bridge after leaving the tracks at St. Helens, Merseyside.

  *October 1987: Four people died when a train fell into the swollen River Towy after a rail bridge collapsed.

  *September 1986: Sixty people were hurt and one killed in a collision between two express trains at Colwich, Staffordshire.

  *26 July 1986: Nine people were killed and 11 injured when a passenger train hit a van on a level-crossing at Lockington, Yorkshire.

  *December 1984: Two people died and 77 were hurt when a passenger train hit a tanker train at Salford, Greater Manchester.

  *October 1984: Three people were killed and 60 injured at Wembley, London, when a passenger train collided with a freight train.

  *July 1984: Thirteen people were killed and 44 hurt in a derailment in Falkirk.

  *October 1979: Five people died and 52 were hurt when two passenger trains collided at Invergowrie.

  *April 1979: A collision between two trains near Paisley left seven people dead and 67 hurt.

  *June 1975: Two trains, including the Euston to Glasgow sleeper service, collided at Nuneaton station, Warwickshire, killing six people and injuring 67.

  *December 1973: A train derailed in Ealing, west London, killing 10 people and injuring 94.

  *August 1973: Five were killed and 50 hurt when an electric train hit a diesel train near Glasgow Central Station.

  *May 1969: Six people died and 121 were injured when a London-Aberdeen express derailed at Morpeth, in Northumberland.

  *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.

  *November 1967: A derailment at Hither Green in south London killed 49 people and injured 78.

  *December 1957: A train ran through a red signal in the fog and collided with another train at Lewisham, south London, killing 90 people and injuring 173.

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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