What the records say
- When
- 2 Dec 1955
- Kind
- Rail accident
- Coordinates
- 51.47° N, 0.24° W
- Description
- 1955 rail crash in west London
- Deaths
- 13
- Injured
- 41
- Participants
- 2
- Cause
- human error
Barnes rail crash
1955 rail crash in west London, England
The Barnes rail crash, in which 13 people were killed and 41 were injured, occurred at Barnes railway station late in the evening of Friday 2 December 1955.
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- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Barnes rail crash at Barnes, South London, a collision due to signal error and consequent fire: 13 killed, 35 injured”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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