#RAIL MAZE 2 LEVEL 60 DRIVER#
įaringdon Road, Berkshire: Driver asleep at controls. Howden rail crash, East Riding: Large casting fell from wagon and derailed coaches. The train derailed and crushed three people to death. Wetheral train accident: Train on the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway wrongly diverted into a siding at Wetheral, a near Carlisle, Cumbria.
#RAIL MAZE 2 LEVEL 60 PC#
Newton Junction: PC Bates of the Liverpool and Manchester railway police force caused an accident when he failed to change a set of points when asleep at his post fined £3 by magistrates (equivalent to £290 in 2021).īagworth: Collision with farmer's cart on level crossing, led to the implementation of the locomotive whistle. The earliest recorded fatality caused by a steam locomotive was an unnamed woman, described as "a blind American beggar", fatally injured by a train on the Stockton and Darlington Railway on 5 March 1827. This is untrue at least two people were killed on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway before it opened to the public. Huskisson is often reported as the first railway fatality, including in ordinarily reliable sources. Parkside: William Huskisson was fatally wounded at the opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway when he was hit by Stephenson's Rocket. See also: History of rail transport in Great Britain 1830–1922īefore 1830 the Philadelphia (UK) boiler explosion 1815, a boiler explosion of "Brunton's Mechanical Traveller" on a plateway had killed 16 people, mainly sightseers. 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). The worst rail accident in Wales was the 1868 Abergele rail disaster, with 33 dead.
The death toll from the 1957 Lewisham rail crash was 90 for the 1889 Armagh rail disaster (the worst in Northern Ireland) it was 80 and for the 1879 Tay Bridge disaster it was 75. Second worst, and the worst in England, was the 1952 Harrow and Wealdstone rail crash, which killed 112 people and injured 340. The worst accident was the Quintinshill rail disaster in Scotland in 1915 with 226 dead and 246 injured. Other railway-related incidents such as the King's Cross fire of 1987 or the 7 July 2005 London bombings are not included.
This lists significant accidents involving railway rolling stock, including crashes, fires and incidents of crew being overcome by locomotive emissions.
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