Clapham Junction Rail Crash

Date: December 12, 1988 • Location: Earlsfield, United Kingdom

Three trains collided near Clapham Junction railway station in London, killing 35 people and injuring 484 others.

The Clapham Junction rail crash occurred on the morning of 12 December 1988, when a crowded British Rail passenger train crashed into the rear of another train that had stopped at a signal just south of Clapham Junction railway station in London, England, and subsequently sideswiped an empty train travelling in the opposite direction. A total of 35 people died in the collision, while 484 were injured in what is Britain's seventh worst rail disaster in terms of death toll.