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Title: Honouring rail crash victims at Norton Fitzwarren Post by: grahame on November 17, 2018, 18:44:26 Railway accidents have never been common - and some place names stick in the memory for just one accident - such as Quntinshill and Tay Bridge. But there are a very, very few that have been unfortunate to feature several times - and one of this is Norton Fitzwarren.
BBC Somerset (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-46247536) reports Quote The victims of two rail crashes that happened in the same village 50 years apart have been honoured with a plaque. In 1890, 10 people were killed and 11 seriously injured when a passenger train and a goods train collided at Norton Fitzwarren, near Taunton. In 1940, a sleeper train carrying 900 people went through a set of points and off the rails at 40mph, killing 27 people and injuring 75 others. Title: Re: Honouring rail crash victims at Norton Fitzwarren Post by: Electric train on November 17, 2018, 21:16:59 Also here https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p06s2ttr?fbclid=IwAR2nbmG-r1mt5FyWqkprlcloPnzmb5m6s_0pIbAIKfHEM2s-gxt4F5YoR00 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p06s2ttr?fbclid=IwAR2nbmG-r1mt5FyWqkprlcloPnzmb5m6s_0pIbAIKfHEM2s-gxt4F5YoR00) an 30 in BBC Sounds program.
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