Re: Glasgow train accidents
Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2009 5:25 pm
*EDITS* not the accident just the anecdote.
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james73 wrote:Smartalex wrote:Simba wrote:6 March 1989: Two suburban electric trains in Glasgow
collided head-on on a single track and two people died.
This Accident was on the Helensburgh-Springburn line near my house just after Bellgrove Station, There is a Wikipedia Entry >Here<
The Bellgrove junction crash. I was on a Springburn-bound train an hour
before that happened the very same day.
James H
Vinegar Tom wrote:No idea of the likely location ( any ideas?). Date must be late Victorian / early Edwardian ?
Bridie wrote:Found this about the Paisley crash
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/memoryshare/li ... /A65112149
"If they want get pissed at British Rails expense, let them, BR's given them bad day"
Bridie wrote:This thread brought back memories had a good friend die in the Paisley accident. If memory serves me right the crash happened just as the train left the station.