The Norton Fitzwarren rail crash occurred on 11 November 1890, at Norton Fitzwarren station on the Great Western Railway, approximately two miles south-west of Taunton in Somerset. A special boat train carrying passengers from Plymouth to Paddington collided with a goods train that was being shunted on the main line. Ten passengers were killed, and eleven people (including the driver and fireman of the special train) were seriously injured.[1]
Another significant accident occurred at Norton Fitzwarren in 1940.
^Rich, Col. F. H. (15 November 1890), Report of the Board of Trade Enquiry(PDF)
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