For other rail accidents in the area, see Watford Junction railway station § Accidents and incidents.
Watford rail crash
Details
Date
8 August 1996 17:24
Location
Watford
Country
England
Line
West Coast Main Line
Operator
Network SouthEast
Owner
Railtrack
Cause
Signal passed at danger
Statistics
Trains
2
Deaths
1
Injured
69
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In the early evening of 8 August 1996, a Class 321 passenger train operated by Network SouthEast travelling from London Euston on the West Coast Main Line Down Slow line at around 110 km/h (68 mph) passed a signal at danger. Having applied the brakes it eventually stopped 203 m (222 yd) past the signal and was traversing the junction between the Down Slow line and the Up Fast line. An empty Class 321 coaching stock train approaching at roughly 80 km/h (50 mph) collided with the stationary passenger train approximately 700 m south of Watford Junction whilst progressing across the connections from the Up Slow line to the Up Fast line.[1]
One person was killed and sixty-nine were injured, including four members of the train's crew. The person who was killed was Ruth Holland, book review editor of the British Medical Journal.[2]
^"Signals blamed for Watford rail crash". BBC News. 29 April 1998. Retrieved 19 May 2010.
^"Ruth Holland Obituary". British Medical Journal. 313: 620. 1996.
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