What the records say
- When
- 24 May 1847
- Kind
- Rail accident
- Coordinates
- 53.19° N, 2.90° W
- Description
- train wreck
- Deaths
- 5
- Injured
- 9
4 sources record it
- Wikidata: air, rail, road, mining and industrial accidentsWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “The Dee bridge disaster: a cast iron girder bridge across the river Dee at Chester, designed by Robert Stephenson for the Chester and Holyhead Railway,…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Der Eisenbahnunfall auf der Dee-Brücke fordert mindestens fünf Todesopfer”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “En Inglaterra se produce el desastre del puente del Dee cuando los vagones de un tren de pasajeros de Chester a Ruabon caen al río Dee, provocando cinco…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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