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. 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, Hertfordshire. A broken rail was found to be the „substantial“ cause of the accident.Hatfield
  • 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.
  • 8. august 1996: One person was killed and 69 people were injured when a train collided with a stationary passenger train at 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.
  • 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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