British Rail Class 303 - Incidents and Accidents

Incidents and Accidents

The Class 303s were involved in many accidents in their 42 years of service:

30/08/73 -

• 303091 involved in Gower Street Collision while working 21:35 Wemyss Bay to Glasgow Central.

31/5/75 -

• 303007 crashes in to cement train at Rutherglen while working 08:25 Glasgow Central to Hamilton Circle.

20/06/75 -

• 303022 crashes into buffers at Lanark while working 14:33 Glasgow Central to Lanark.

16/04/79 -

• 303074 involved in Gilmour Street Collision while working 19:40 Glasgow Central to Wemyss Bay.

--/--/80 -

• 303002 runs away at Neilston Station and becomes the first unit to be scrapped.

07/03/85 -

• 303072 strikes girder placed on track at Singer whilst working 22.46 Airdrie to Balloch. Front bogie of 75782 is ripped off.

--/--/86 -

• 303057 Motor Coach fire

11/09/86 -

• Two units collide in the tunnel near Bridgeton Depot, leading to the death of a driver and guard.

30/01/87 -

• 303051 runs away and collides with 37011 near Dalmuir

06/03/89 -

• Head on collision between 303005 and 303071 at Bellgrove junction.

01/05/91 -

• Motor Coach of 303038 explodes at Shields Depot

21/07/91 -

• 303037 involved in Newton Crash.

--/06/94 -

• 303046 hits object placed by vandals on track on Wemyss Bay branch.

--/--/99 -

• 303058 Motor Coach blew up in service