Harrow and Wealdstone rail crash
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The Harrow and Wealdstone rail crash was a three-train collision at Harrow and Wealdstone station in Wealdstone, Middlesex during the morning rush hour of 8 October 1952. The crash resulted in 112 deaths and 340 injuries, 88 of these being detained in hospital. It remains the worst peacetime rail crash in British history and the second deadliest overall after the Quintinshill rail disaster of 1915.
Automatic warning system magnet located between the rails
The north entrance to Harrow and Wealdstone railway station where a memorial to the disaster that occurred there in 1952 was unveiled fifty years later
The disaster memorial stone plaque on display at the north entrance of Harrow and Wealdstone railway station
Harrow & Wealdstone station
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Harrow & Wealdstone is a London Underground and railway station on the Watford DC line and West Coast Main Line in Harrow and Wealdstone in the London Borough of Harrow. It is 11 miles 30 chains (18.31 km) on the line from London Euston station. It is also the northern terminus of the Bakerloo line and the next station towards south is Kenton.
Harrow & Wealdstone station entrance from The Bridge
Oerlikon electric train at Harrow & Wealdstone, 11 March 1956
Harrow and Wealdstone station, with the DC electric platforms to the left, and main line fast platforms to the right.
Main line platforms