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« on: November 17, 2018, 18:44:26 »

Railway accidents have never been common - and some place names stick in the memory for just one accident - such as Quntinshill and Tay Bridge.  But there are a very, very few that have been unfortunate to feature several times - and one of this is Norton Fitzwarren.

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The victims of two rail crashes that happened in the same village 50 years apart have been honoured with a plaque.

In 1890, 10 people were killed and 11 seriously injured when a passenger train and a goods train collided at Norton Fitzwarren, near Taunton.

In 1940, a sleeper train carrying 900 people went through a set of points and off the rails at 40mph, killing 27 people and injuring 75 others.
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« Reply #1 on: November 17, 2018, 21:16:59 »

Also here https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p06s2ttr?fbclid=IwAR2nbmG-r1mt5FyWqkprlcloPnzmb5m6s_0pIbAIKfHEM2s-gxt4F5YoR00 an 30 in BBC» (British Broadcasting Corporation - home page) Sounds program.
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