What the records say
- When
- 19 Oct 1987
- Kind
- Rail accident
- Coordinates
- 51.93° N, 3.91° W
- Description
- railway accident in Carmarthenshire, Wales, in 1977
- Deaths
- 4
- Cause
- bridge scour, bridge failure
2 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 “Glanrhyd Bridge collapse: A train runs off the end of a bridge that has collapsed into the River Towy in Wales due to flooding, killing four people”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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