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EAW047077 ENGLAND (1952). The aftermath of the Harrow and Wealdstone rail crash, Wealdstone, 1952. This image was marked by Aerofilms Ltd for photo editing.

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EAW047077
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EAW047078
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EAW047079
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EAW047076
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EAW047085
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EAW047072
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EAW047075
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EAW047083
  297° 34m
EAW047082
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EAW047084
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EAW047066
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EAW047067
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EAW047074
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EAW047081
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EAW047068
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Manylion

Pennawd [EAW047077] The aftermath of the Harrow and Wealdstone rail crash, Wealdstone, 1952. This image was marked by Aerofilms Ltd for photo editing.
Cyfeirnod EAW047077
Dyddiad 8-October-1952
Dolen
Enw lle WEALDSTONE
Plwyf
Ardal
Gwlad ENGLAND
Dwyreiniad / Gogleddiad 515415, 189475
Hydred / Lledred -0.33370167722939, 51.59181475942
Cyfeirnod Grid Cenedlaethol TQ154895

Pinnau

Harrow Signal Box No.1

Billy Turner
Saturday 9th of January 2016 05:54:40 PM
Harrow Signal Box No.2

Billy Turner
Saturday 9th of January 2016 05:48:24 PM
Austin K8 van

Billy Turner
Saturday 9th of January 2016 05:40:13 PM
Carter Paterson (Hauliers)

The Laird
Saturday 4th of April 2015 04:17:22 PM
Could be the "Chuck Wagon" supplied by the American Airforce, USAF,to supply refreshments to their men and others. It came with 85 staff including 3 doctors and Lt. Abbie Sweetwine, the "Angel of platform 5" as the press called her, to give valuable aid. Bless them all.

John Wass
Monday 23rd of June 2014 02:45:23 PM
Station clock stopped at time of first collision 08:18:30seconds a.m.

John Wass
Monday 23rd of June 2014 02:35:06 PM

Cyfraniadau Grŵp

The Harrow and Wealdstone rail crash was a three-train collision at Harrow and Wealdstone station in London during the morning rush hour of 8 October 1952. 112 people were killed and 340 injured (88 of these being detained in hospital); it remains the worst peacetime rail crash in the United Kingdom.[1]

An overnight express train from Perth crashed at speed into the rear of a local passenger train standing at a platform at the station. The wreckage blocked adjacent lines and was struck within seconds by a "double-headed" express train travelling north at 60 mph (97 km/h). A subsequent Ministry of Transport report on the crash found that the driver of the Perth train had passed a caution signal and two danger signals before colliding with the local train. The accident accelerated the introduction of Automatic Warning System – by the time the report had been published British Railways had agreed to a five-year plan to install the system that warned drivers that they had passed an adverse signal.

Billy Turner
Friday 8th of January 2016 09:50:52 PM