Worst Accidents
The worst incident was the Quintinshill rail disaster in 1915 with 230 dead and 246 injured, the 1952 Harrow and Wealdstone rail crash resulted in 112 deaths and 340 injured. The death toll from the 1957 Lewisham rail crash was 90, for the 1889 Armagh rail disaster was 80 and the 1879 Tay Bridge disaster was 75.
The incident on the London Underground with the highest loss of life was the 7 July 2005 London bombings. Discounting terrorism, and the wartime incidents noted in the section below, the worst peacetime incident was the Moorgate tube crash, which occurred on the Northern City Line (at the time part of the London Underground Network).
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