Harrow And Wealdstone Rail Crash

The Harrow and Wealdstone rail crash was a three-train collision at Harrow and Wealdstone station in Wealdstone, Middlesex during the morning rush hour of 8 October 1952. 112 were killed and 340 injured, 88 of these being detained in hospital, and it remains the worst peacetime rail crash in the United Kingdom but the second deadliest overall. The Quintinshill rail disaster of 1915 had 226 fatalities.