There have been two major accidents at Norton Fitzwarren in Somerset:
- The Norton Fitzwarren rail crash (1890).
- The Norton Fitzwarren rail crash (1940).
Famous quotes containing the words norton, rail and/or crash:
“Every cloud must have a silver lining.”
—George A. Norton (1880–1923)
“Old man, it’s four flights up and for what?
Your room is hardly any bigger than your bed.
Puffing as you climb, you are a brown woodcut
stooped over the thin rail and the wornout tread.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“You crash over the trees,
you crack the live branch.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)