Harrow and Wealdstone Rail Crash

Date: October 8, 1952 • Location: Greenhill, United Kingdom

Three trains collided (aftermath pictured) at Harrow & Wealdstone station in London, killing 112 people and injuring 340 others.

Three trains collided at Harrow and Wealdstone station in Wealdstone, Middlesex, England during the morning rush hour of 8 October 1952. The crash resulted in 112 deaths and 340 injuries, 88 of these being detained in hospital. It remains the worst peacetime rail crash in British history and the second deadliest overall after the Quintinshill rail disaster of 1915.