Charfield railway disaster (Q5074229)

matcher place: South Gloucestershire (relation 82631)
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Wikipedia: English
English Wikipedia categories: 1928 disasters in the United Kingdom, 1928 in England, 20th century in Gloucestershire, Accidents and incidents involving Bristol and Gloucester Railway, Accidents and incidents involving Great Western Railway, Accidents and incidents involving London, Midland and Scottish Railway, Derailments in England, October 1928 events, Rail accidents caused by a driver's error, Railway accidents and incidents in Gloucestershire, Railway accidents in 1928, Railway accidents involving a signal passed at danger, Railway accidents involving fog, Train and rapid transit fires, Train collisions in England

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Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

The Charfield railway disaster was a fatal train crash which occurred on 13 October 1928 in the village of Charfield in the English county of Gloucestershire. The London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) Leeds to Bristol night mail train failed to stop at the signals protecting the down refuge siding at Charfield railway station. The weather was misty, but there was not a sufficiently thick fog for the signalman at Charfield to employ fog signalmen. A freight train was in the process of being shunted from the down main line to the siding, and another train of empty goods wagons was passing through the station from the Bristol (up) direction.

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Train and rapid transit fires

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