What the records say
- When
- 24 Sep 1917
- Kind
- Rail accident
- Coordinates
- 50.45° N, 4.18° W
- Description
- rail accident in Bere Ferrers
- Deaths
- 10
- Injured
- 2
Bere Ferrers rail accident
1917 rail accident in Devon, England
The Bere Ferrers rail accident occurred at Bere Ferrers railway station in England on 24 September 1917 when ten soldiers from New Zealand alighted from their troop train on the wrong side of the train, having assumed they should leave by the same side they had entered, and were struck and killed by an oncoming express.
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