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Kentish Town rail accident

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Country
  
England

Injuries
  
317 (20 seriously)

Total number of deaths
  
16

Location
  
Kentish Town station

Cause
  
Signalling error

Date
  
2 September 1861

Trains
  
2

Rail line
  
Hampstead Junction Railway

Similar
  
Wembley Central rail crash, Spa Road Junction rail crash, Ealing rail crash, Cannon Street station rai, Purley station rail crash

On 2 September 1861, near Kentish Town station in London, 16 people were killed and 317 injured, when an excursion train operated by the North London Railway collided with a freight train operated by the London and North Western Railway.

The excursion train was running early and had been given permission to proceed; but met the freight train as it crossed the lines at a freight sidings unprotected by signals.

References

Kentish Town rail accident Wikipedia