12:00am Friday 25th May 2001
: London, Febuary 28th: This is a list of the worst rail accidents in the UK:
February 28, 2001: A GNER York to London King's Cross today crashed at Great Heck, North Yorkshire, on the East Coast main line. At least 15 people dead.
October 17, 2000: Four killed when a GNER London to Leeds train derailed at Hatfield, Herts.
October 5, 1999: Thirty one people killed when two trains collided at Ladbroke Grove, just outside Paddington station, London. September 19, 1997: Swansea to Paddington express crashed into freight train at Southall, west London, killing seven people.
August 8, 1996: One dead, 69 injured when train collided with a stationary passenger train at Watford South Junction, Herts.
January 31, 1995: A guard killed and 30 people injured in an accident at Aisgill on the Settle to Carlisle line.
October 1994: Five killed and 12 injured in a head-on crash near Cowden in Kent.
December 1991: More than 100 people injured when two trains collide in tunnel beneath the River Severn.
March 1989: Five people died when two trains collided outside Purley station, south London.
March 1989: Two killed when two trains in Glasgow collided head-on.
December 12, 1988: Thirty five people killed in rush hour crash at Clapham Junction, south London.
October 1987: Four people died after train falls into the swollen River Towy in Wales after the rail bridge collapsed.
July 26, 1986: Nine people were killed when passenger train hit a van on a level crossing at Lockington, East Yorkshire.
October 1979: Five killed when two trains collide at Invergowrie, Scotland.
February 1975: Train hits the end of a cul-de-sac tunnel at Moorgate Underground station in central London killing 43 people.
June 1975: Two trains collided at Nuneaton station, Warwicks, killing six people.
December 1973: Ten killed when a train derailed in Ealing, west London.
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