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Wootton bridge collapse

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The Wootton bridge collapse occurred on 11 June 1861, when the rail bridge over the road between Leek Wootton and Hill Wootton in Warwickshire collapsed under the weight of a passing goods train on the line between Leamington Spa and Kenilworth owned by the London and North Western Railway Company. [1]

15 relations: Board of Trade, Cast iron, Coventry–Leamington line, Dee Bridge disaster, Henry Tyler (Conservative politician), Her Majesty's Railway Inspectorate, Inverythan rail accident, Kenilworth, Leamington Spa, Leek Wootton, List of rail accidents in the United Kingdom, London and North Western Railway, Norwood Junction rail accident, Tay Rail Bridge, Warwickshire.

Board of Trade

The Board of Trade is a British government department concerned with commerce and industry, currently within the Department for International Trade.

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Cast iron

Cast iron is a group of iron-carbon alloys with a carbon content greater than 2%.

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Coventry–Leamington line

The Coventry to Leamington Line is a railway line linking the city of Coventry with the town of Leamington Spa. The line was opened in 1844 by the London and Birmingham Railway, initially only as far as Milverton. The line was extended to Leamington Spa Avenue in 1851. A connecting line to opened in 1884. Late in the 19th century most of the route was doubled to increase capacity. Only a small section just outside Kenilworth, at Gibbet Hill, remained single track.

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Dee Bridge disaster

The Dee Bridge disaster was a rail accident that occurred on 24 May 1847 in Chester, resulting in five fatalities.

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Henry Tyler (Conservative politician)

Sir Henry Whatley Tyler (7 March 1827 - 1908) was a British Inspector of Railways, Railway Company director and Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1880 to 1892.

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Her Majesty's Railway Inspectorate

Established in 1840, HM Railway Inspectorate (HMRI: Her Majesty's Railway Inspectorate) is the British organisation responsible for overseeing safety on Britain's railways and tramways.

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Inverythan rail accident

The Inverythan rail accident occurred when a faulty girder collapsed on a 39 ft by 15 ft single-track railway underbridge between Auchterless and Fyvie.

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Kenilworth

Kenilworth is a town and civil parish in Warwickshire, England, about south-west of the centre of Coventry, north of Warwick and north-west of London.

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Leamington Spa

Royal Leamington Spa, commonly known as Leamington Spa or Leamington, is a spa town in Warwickshire, England.

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Leek Wootton

Leek Wootton is a village in Warwickshire, England, roughly one mile from Kenilworth and two miles from Warwick.

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List of rail accidents in the United Kingdom

This list of railway accidents in the United Kingdom provides details of significant railway crashes in the United Kingdom involving railway rolling stock, but not other railway related incidents such as the Oxford Circus fire of 1984, the King's Cross fire of 1987 or terrorism.

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London and North Western Railway

The London and North Western Railway (LNWR, L&NWR) was a British railway company between 1846 and 1922.

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Norwood Junction rail accident

The Norwood Junction railway crash occurred on 1 May 1891, when a cast-iron underbridge over Portland Road, 60 yards north-east of Norwood Junction railway station, fractured under the weight of an express train from Brighton to London Bridge.

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Tay Rail Bridge

The Tay Bridge carries the mainline railway across the Firth of Tay in Scotland, serving rail traffic between the city of Dundee and the suburb of Wormit in Fife.

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Warwickshire

Warwickshire (abbreviated Warks) is a landlocked county in the West Midlands of England.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wootton_bridge_collapse

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