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Knowle and Dorridge rail crash
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Date15 August 1963
13:50
LocationKnowle and Dorridge station, West Midlands
CountryEngland
LineBirmingham to Oxford
CauseSignaller's error
Statistics
Trains2
Deaths3
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The Knowle and Dorridge rail crash was a fatal rail crash that occurred at Dorridge railway station in Warwickshire, England, on 15 August 1963. Three people died in the crash after a signalman's error routed a small freight train into the path of an express passenger train which slowed but could not stop before colliding with it.

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