What the records say
- When
- 4 Dec 1957
- Kind
- Rail accident
- Coordinates
- 51.47° N, 0.02° W
- Description
- 1957 train wreck
- Deaths
- 90
- Injured
- 173
- Cause
- signal passed at danger, fog, human error
Lewisham rail crash
1957 train wreck in Lewisham, London, England
On the evening of 4 December 1957, two trains crashed in dense fog on the South Eastern Main Line near Lewisham in south-east London, causing the deaths of 90 people and injuring 173. An electric train to Hayes had stopped at a signal under a rail bridge, and the following steam train to Ramsgate crashed into it, destroying a carriage and causing the bridge to collapse onto the steam train.
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