Abergele rail disaster

When

20 Aug 1868

Kind

Rail accident

Coordinates

53.29° N, 3.62° W

Description

train wreck

Deaths

33

1868 Welsh railway disaster

The Abergele rail disaster took place near Abergele, North Wales, in August 1868. At the time, it was the worst railway disaster to have occurred in Great Britain.

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• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Abergele rail disaster in Wales: An Irish Mail passenger train collides with 4 cargo trucks loaded with paraffin oil (more akin to modern kerosine); 33 are…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Beim Eisenbahnunfall von Abergele sterben 33 Menschen in den Trümmern des anschließenden Brandes”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page