Shipton-on-Cherwell train crash

When

24 Dec 1874

Kind

Rail accident

Coordinates

51.85° N, 1.30° W

Description

train wreck

Deaths

34

Injured

69

1874 railway incident in England

The Shipton-on-Cherwell train crash was a major disaster which occurred on the Great Western Railway. It involved the derailment of a long passenger train at Shipton-on-Cherwell, near Kidlington, Oxfordshire, England, on Christmas Eve, 24 December 1874, and was one of the worst disasters on the Great Western Railway.

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