List of Great Western Railway Accidents
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This list includes notable accidents on railways that were later amalgamated with the Great Western Railway.
- Sonning Cutting, 24 December 1841 – 10 killed, 17 injured: train ran into landslide caused by heavy rain.
- Grove viaduct, 6 May 1859 – just two days after the opening of the Cornwall Railway a train was derailed near St Germans and fell off a viaduct killing three of the train crew.
- Menheniot, 2 December 1873 (Cornwall Railway) – head on collision on single line; no casualties: misunderstood signalman's verbal order.
- Shipton-on-Cherwell, 24 December 1874; 34 killed, 69 injured: carriage tyre broke, derailed train on bridge over canal.
- Norton Fitzwarren, 10 November 1890 – ten killed due to signalman's error.
- Menheniot, 9 February 1897 – reconstruction of Coldrennick Viaduct: workman's platform fell: 12 killed.
- Menheniot, 15 November 1897 – reconstruction of Trevido Viaduct: accident raising a heavy timber: 2 killed.
- Slough, 16 June 1900 – signal passed at danger: 5 killed, 35 injured.
- Abermule (Cambrian Railways), 26 January 1921 – 17 killed, 36 injured; head-on collision on single line, inattention to proper procedures.
- Norton Fitzwarren, 4 November 1940 – 27 killed: driver misunderstood signal layout, drove off track.
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