Clapham Junction train crash memorial
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Clapham Junction train crash memorial by Robin Webster as part of the Geograph project.
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Clapham Junction train crash memorial
Image: © Robin Webster Taken: 6 May 2012
This remembers the dead and injured of the train crash on the tracks below to the left on 12 December 1988. Because of a botched wiring job on a resignalling project, trains were presented with false signal aspects. One train ran into the back of another and a third empty train hit one of the derailed trains. 35 died and hundreds were injured.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.457956
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-0.174429