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Signal passed at danger

Index Signal passed at danger

A signal passed at danger (SPAD) in railway terminology of many countries, including Australia and the UK (where it is also known as either a SPAD or SPAR), occurs when a train passes a stop signal without authority to do so. [1]

109 relations: Absolute block signalling, Acute (medicine), Arnhem, Attention, Automatic Warning System, Åsta accident, Bad Aibling rail accident, Beresfield railway station, Braking distance, Cab Secure Radio, Charfield railway disaster, Chiltern Railways, Chronic condition, Clapham Junction rail crash, Colwich rail crash, Communication, Cowden rail crash, Dagenham East rail crash, Ding-ding, and away, Discernment, Distraction, Eccles rail crash (1941), Eccles rail crash (1984), Effects of fatigue on safety, Emergency brake (train), Fail-safe, Genthin rail disaster, Glasgow Bellgrove rail accident, Glenbrook rail accident, Glossary of rail transport terms, Goodwell, Oklahoma, Granges-près-Marnand train crash, Great Western Railway (train operating company), GSM-R, Halle train collision, Harmelen train disaster, Harrow and Wealdstone rail crash, Hermalle-sous-Huy train collision, Hexthorpe rail accident, Hines Hill train collision, Hinton train collision, Interlocking, Invergowrie rail accident, Kew Gardens train crash, Ladbroke Grove rail crash, Level crossing, Lewisham rail crash, Lewisham rail crash (1857), London Underground, Luton railway station, ..., Marden rail crash, Microsleep, Mobile phone, Myocardial infarction, National Transportation Safety Board, Newark Bay rail accident, Newton (South Lanarkshire) rail accident, Northern City Line, Norton Bridge, Staffordshire, Norton Fitzwarren rail crash (1940), Norwalk rail accident, Office of Rail and Road, Otłoczyn railway accident, Overlap (railway signalling), Paisley Gilmour Street rail accident, Pécrot rail crash, Permissive Working (railway), Potters Bar rail accidents, Purley station rail crash, Qalyoub train collision, Rail accidents in Winsford, Rail Safety and Standards Board, Railway brake, Railway signal, Rüsselsheim train disaster, Roseville (NSW) collision (1950), Route knowledge (rail), Secaucus, New Jersey, Seer Green rail crash, Shigaraki train disaster, Shunting (rail), Signalling control, Single-line working, Sleep apnea, Sloterdijk train collision, Slough rail accident, Southall rail crash, Spa Road Junction rail crash, St-Hilaire train disaster, Stratford tube crash, Stroke, Suonenjoki rail collision, Train Protection & Warning System, Train stop, Understanding, Violet Town rail accident, Wembley Central rail crash, Work train, Wrawby Junction rail crash, 1897 Gentofte train crash, 1906 Washington, D.C., train wreck, 1913 Ais Gill rail accident, 1987 Maryland train collision, 1995 Russell Hill subway accident, 1996 Maryland train collision, 2006 Rome Metro crash, 2008 Chatsworth train collision, 2010 Badarwas train collision, 2011 Saxony-Anhalt train collision. Expand index (59 more) »

Absolute block signalling

Absolute block signalling is a British signalling scheme designed to ensure the safe operation of a railway by allowing only one train to occupy a defined section of track (block) at any time.

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Acute (medicine)

In medicine, describing a disease as acute denotes that it is of short duration and, as a corollary of that, of recent onset.

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Arnhem

Arnhem (or; Arnheim, Frisian: Arnhim, South Guelderish: Èrnem) is a city and municipality situated in the eastern part of the Netherlands.

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Attention

Attention, also referred to as enthrallment, is the behavioral and cognitive process of selectively concentrating on a discrete aspect of information, whether deemed subjective or objective, while ignoring other perceivable information.

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Automatic Warning System

The Automatic Warning System (AWS) is a form of limited cab signalling introduced in 1956 in the United Kingdom.

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Åsta accident

The Åsta accident was a railway accident that occurred at 13:12:25 on 4 January 2000 at Åsta in Åmot, south of Rena in Østerdalen, Norway.

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Bad Aibling rail accident

On 9 February 2016, two Meridian-branded passenger trains were involved in a head-on collision at Bad Aibling in southeastern Germany.

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Beresfield railway station

Beresfield railway station is located on the Main Northern line in New South Wales, Australia.

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Braking distance

Braking distance refers to the distance a vehicle will travel from the point when its brakes are fully applied to when it comes to a complete stop.

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Cab Secure Radio

Cab Secure Radio (CSR) is an in-cab analogue radiotelephone system used on parts of the British railway network.

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Charfield railway disaster

The Charfield railway disaster was a fatal train crash which occurred on 13 October 1928 in the village of Charfield in the English county of Gloucestershire.

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Chiltern Railways

Chiltern Railways is a British train operating company owned by Arriva UK Trains that has operated the Chiltern Railways franchise since July 1996.

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Chronic condition

A chronic condition is a human health condition or disease that is persistent or otherwise long-lasting in its effects or a disease that comes with time.

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Clapham Junction rail crash

On the morning of 12 December 1988, a crowded passenger train crashed into the rear of another train that had stopped at a signal, just south of Clapham Junction railway station in London, and subsequently sideswiped an empty train travelling in the opposite direction.

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Colwich rail crash

The Colwich rail crash occurred on the evening of Friday 19 September 1986 at Colwich Junction, Staffordshire, England.

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Communication

Communication (from Latin commūnicāre, meaning "to share") is the act of conveying intended meanings from one entity or group to another through the use of mutually understood signs and semiotic rules.

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Cowden rail crash

The Cowden rail crash occurred on 15 October 1994, around 400 yards southeast of Cowden Station in the English county of Kent.

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Dagenham East rail crash

The Dagenham East rail crash was a railway accident on the London, Tilbury and Southend Railway line of British Railways which occurred at Dagenham, United Kingdom.

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Ding-ding, and away

Ding-ding, and away is a slang expression used by the UK media and railway enthusiasts to describe a type of operating incident in the British railway industry where the guard of a train standing at a platform wrongly gives a bell code to the driver, even though the platform starting signal is at danger, and the driver then moves the train past the signal without checking it.

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Discernment

Discernment is the ability to obtain sharp perceptions or to judge well (or the activity of so doing).

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Distraction

Distraction is the process of diverting the attention of an individual or group from a desired area of focus and thereby blocking or diminishing the reception of desired information.

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Eccles rail crash (1941)

The 1941 Eccles rail crash occurred on 30 December 1941 at the east end of Eccles railway station in Lancashire, England.

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Eccles rail crash (1984)

The 1984 Eccles rail crash occurred on 4 December 1984 at Eccles, Greater Manchester, when an express passenger train collided at speed with the rear of a freight train of oil tankers.

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Effects of fatigue on safety

Fatigue is a major safety concern in many fields, but especially in transportation, because fatigue can result in disastrous accidents.

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Emergency brake (train)

On trains, the expression emergency brake has several meanings.

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Fail-safe

A fail-safe in engineering is a design feature or practice that in the event of a specific type of failure, inherently responds in a way that will cause no or minimal harm to other equipment, the environment or to people.

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Genthin rail disaster

The Genthin rail disaster happened on 22 December 1939, when an express train crashed into a preceding express in Genthin station, in today’s Saxony-Anhalt state of Germany.

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Glasgow Bellgrove rail accident

On 6 March 1989 two Class 303 commuter trains crashed on the Springburn branch of the North Clyde Line, just east of Bellgrove station in the East End of Glasgow, Scotland.

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Glenbrook rail accident

The Glenbrook rail accident occurred on 2 December 1999 at 8:22 am on a curve east of Glenbrook railway station on the CityRail network between Glenbrook and Lapstone, in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales, Australia.

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Glossary of rail transport terms

Rail terminology is a form of technical terminology.

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Goodwell, Oklahoma

Goodwell is a town in Texas County, Oklahoma, United States.

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Granges-près-Marnand train crash

On 29 July 2013, two passenger trains were involved in a head-on collision at Granges-près-Marnand, Switzerland, killing one person and injuring 25 others.

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Great Western Railway (train operating company)

First Greater Western Limited, trading as Great Western Railway (GWR), is a British train operating company owned by FirstGroup that operates the Greater Western railway franchise.

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GSM-R

GSM-R, Global System for Mobile Communications – Railway or GSM-Railway is an international wireless communications standard for railway communication and applications.

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Halle train collision

The Halle train collision (also known as the Buizingen train collision) was a collision between two NMBS/SNCB passenger trains carrying 250–300 people in Buizingen, in the municipality of Halle, Flemish Brabant, Belgium, on 15 February 2010.

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Harmelen train disaster

The Harmelen train disaster was the worst railway accident in the history of the Netherlands on 8 January 1962.

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Harrow and Wealdstone rail crash

The Harrow and Wealdstone rail crash was a three-train collision at Harrow and Wealdstone station in Wealdstone, Middlesex (now Greater London) during the morning rush hour of 8 October 1952; 112 were killed and 340 injured (88 of these being detained in hospital); it remains the worst peacetime rail crash in the United Kingdom.

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Hermalle-sous-Huy train collision

The Hermalle-sous-Huy train collision was a collision between a passenger train and a freight train in, Belgium, on 5 June 2016.

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Hexthorpe rail accident

The Hexthorpe rail accident occurred on 16 September 1887 at Hexthorpe railway platform some west of Doncaster on the South Yorkshire Railway line to Sheffield and Barnsley.

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Hines Hill train collision

The Hines Hill train collision occurred on the Eastern Goldfields Railway on 14 January 1996 at Hines Hill, Western Australia.

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Hinton train collision

The Hinton train collision was a railway accident that occurred on February 8, 1986.

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Interlocking

In railway signalling, an interlocking is an arrangement of signal apparatus that prevents conflicting movements through an arrangement of tracks such as junctions or crossings.

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Invergowrie rail accident

The Invergowrie rail accident happened at Invergowrie, Scotland on 22 October 1979.

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Kew Gardens train crash

The Kew Gardens train crash was a collision between two trains on the Long Island Rail Road's Main Line, which occurred during the evening rush hour of November 22, 1950.

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Ladbroke Grove rail crash

The Ladbroke Grove rail crash (also known as the Paddington train crash) was a rail accident which occurred on 5 October 1999 at Ladbroke Grove in London, United Kingdom.

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Level crossing

A level crossing is an intersection where a railway line crosses a road or path at the same level, as opposed to the railway line crossing over or under using a bridge or tunnel.

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Lewisham rail crash

On the evening of 4 December 1957, two trains collided in dense fog on the South Eastern main line near Lewisham in London, causing the death of 90 people and injuring 173.

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Lewisham rail crash (1857)

On 28 June 1857, two trains collided just east of Lewisham railway station in London, killing 11 and injuring 30 more.

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London Underground

The London Underground (also known simply as the Underground, or by its nickname the Tube) is a public rapid transit system serving London and some parts of the adjacent counties of Buckinghamshire, Essex and Hertfordshire in the United Kingdom.

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Luton railway station

Luton railway station is a railway station located in the town centre of Luton, Bedfordshire, England.

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Marden rail crash

The Marden rail crash occurred on 4 January 1969 near Marden, Kent, United Kingdom, when a passenger train ran into the rear of a parcels train, having passed two signals at danger.

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Microsleep

A micro-sleep (MS) is a temporary episode of sleep or drowsiness which may last for a fraction of a second or up to 30 seconds where an individual fails to respond to some arbitrary sensory input and becomes unconscious.

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Mobile phone

A mobile phone, known as a cell phone in North America, is a portable telephone that can make and receive calls over a radio frequency link while the user is moving within a telephone service area.

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Myocardial infarction

Myocardial infarction (MI), commonly known as a heart attack, occurs when blood flow decreases or stops to a part of the heart, causing damage to the heart muscle.

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National Transportation Safety Board

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is an independent U.S. government investigative agency responsible for civil transportation accident investigation.

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Newark Bay rail accident

The Newark Bay rail accident occurred on September 15, 1958 in Newark Bay, New Jersey.

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Newton (South Lanarkshire) rail accident

On 21 July 1991, two commuter trains crashed just west of Newton station in the south-eastern outskirts of Glasgow, Scotland.

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Northern City Line

The Northern City Line is a commuter line in England, which runs from London Moorgate to Finsbury Park in London with services running beyond.

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Norton Bridge, Staffordshire

Norton Bridge is a village in Staffordshire, England.

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Norton Fitzwarren rail crash (1940)

The Norton Fitzwarren rail crash occurred on 4 November 1940 between Taunton and Norton Fitzwarren in the English county of Somerset, when the driver of a train misunderstood the signalling and track layout, causing him to drive the train through a set of points and off the rails at approximately 40mph.

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Norwalk rail accident

The Norwalk rail accident occurred on May 6, 1853, in Norwalk, Connecticut, and was the first major U.S. railroad bridge disaster; 48 were killed when a train travelling at 50 mph plunged into the Norwalk Harbor off of an open draw (swing) bridge.

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Office of Rail and Road

The Office of Rail and Road (ORR) is a non-ministerial government department responsible for the economic and safety regulation of Britain's railways, and the economic monitoring of Highways England.

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Otłoczyn railway accident

The Otłoczyn railway accident (Katastrofa kolejowa pod Otłoczynem) was a train wreck which occurred on 19 August 1980, near the village of Otłoczyn (Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, northern Poland).

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Overlap (railway signalling)

An overlap in railway signalling is the length of track beyond a stop signal that is proved to be clear of vehicles in the controls of the previous signal, as a safety margin.

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Paisley Gilmour Street rail accident

The Paisley Gilmour Street rail accident occurred on 16 April 1979 at 19:50.

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Pécrot rail crash

The Pécrot rail crash was a rail accident in the village of Pécrot (part of the municipality of Grez-Doiceau), Belgium, that occurred on 27 March 2001 when two passenger trains collided head-on.

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Permissive Working (railway)

Permissive Working on a railway in the United Kingdom allows more than one train at a time to be on the same line in a block section, a signal section or a dead-end platform line.

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Potters Bar rail accidents

There have been four railway accidents in Potters Bar, Hertfordshire, England, one in 1898, one in 1899, one in 1946 and the latest in 2002.

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Purley station rail crash

The Purley station rail crash was a train collision that occurred just to the north of Purley railway station in the London Borough of Croydon on Saturday 4 March 1989, leaving five dead and 88 injured.

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Qalyoub train collision

The Qalyoub train collision occurred at a converging junction in Qalyoub to the north of Cairo in Egypt on 21 August 2006, when two commuter trains collided during the morning rush hour, killing 58 people and injuring over 140.

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Rail accidents in Winsford

There have been three major rail accidents and one notable incident near in Cheshire.

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Rail Safety and Standards Board

The Rail Safety and Standards Board (RSSB) is an independent not-for-profit company limited by guarantee, which was established in 2003, upon the recommendation of the public inquiry into the Ladbroke Grove rail crash.

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Railway brake

Brakes are used on the cars of railway trains to enable deceleration, control acceleration (downhill) or to keep them standing when parked.

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Railway signal

A signal is a mechanical or electrical device erected beside a railway line to pass information relating to the state of the line ahead to engine drivers (engineers in North America).

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Rüsselsheim train disaster

The Rüsselsheim train disaster occurred on February 2, 1990, on the Main Railway near the Rüsselsheim station in Germany.

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Roseville (NSW) collision (1950)

The Roseville (New South Wales) collision was a railway collision in Australia of the "signal at danger tripped past in accordance to the rules" type.

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Route knowledge (rail)

Route knowledge is one of the core skills together with train handling (also known as brake handling) and a full understanding of railway rules, which operating crew must possess in order to be able to drive a train safely.

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Secaucus, New Jersey

Secaucus is a town in Hudson County, New Jersey, United States.

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Seer Green rail crash

The Seer Green rail crash occurred on the morning of 11 December 1981 near Seer Green, Buckinghamshire, England between two four-car Class 115 diesel multiple units, killing one driver and three passengers.

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Shigaraki train disaster

The was a railway accident that occurred in Shigaraki (now Koka), Shiga Prefecture, Japan on May 14, 1991.

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Shunting (rail)

Shunting, in railway operations, is the process of sorting items of rolling stock into complete trains, or the reverse.

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Signalling control

On a rail transport system, signalling control is the process by which control is exercised over train movements by way of railway signals and block systems to ensure that trains operate safely, over the correct route and to the proper timetable.

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Single-line working

On a railway, single-line working refers to the practice where when one line out of two is blocked, trains are able to use the other in either direction.

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Sleep apnea

Sleep apnea, also spelled sleep apnoea, is a sleep disorder characterized by pauses in breathing or periods of shallow breathing during sleep.

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Sloterdijk train collision

On 21 April 2012 at 18:30 local time (16:30 UTC), two trains collided head-on at Westerpark, near Sloterdijk, in the west of Amsterdam, Netherlands. Approximately 117 people were injured, one of whom later died in a hospital. The collision is thought to have been caused by the driver of one of the trains having passed a red signal.

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Slough rail accident

The Slough rail accident happened on 16 June 1900 at Slough railway station on the Great Western Main Line when an express train from to ran through two sets of signals at danger, and collided with a local train heading for Windsor.

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Southall rail crash

The Southall rail crash was an accident on the British railway system that occurred on 19 September 1997, on the Great Western Main Line at Southall, west London.

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Spa Road Junction rail crash

The Spa Road Junction rail crash was an accident on the British railway system which occurred during the peak evening rush hour of 8 January 1999 at Spa Road Junction in Bermondsey, southeast London.

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St-Hilaire train disaster

The St-Hilaire train disaster was a railway disaster that occurred on June 29, 1864, near the present-day town of Mont-Saint-Hilaire, Quebec.

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Stratford tube crash

The Stratford tube crash occurred on 8 April 1953, on the Central line of the London Underground.

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Stroke

A stroke is a medical condition in which poor blood flow to the brain results in cell death.

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Suonenjoki rail collision

The Suonenjoki rail collision occurred on 12 August 1998, when an InterCity train arriving from the north and a freight train arriving from the south collided south of the Suonenjoki railway station in Finland.

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Train Protection & Warning System

The Train Protection & Warning System (TPWS) is a train protection system used throughout the two UK passenger main-line railway networks, and in Victoria, Australia.

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Train stop

Part of a railway signalling system, a train stop, trip stop or tripcock (sometimes called a tripper) is a train protection device that automatically stops a train if it attempts to pass a signal when the signal aspect and operating rules prohibit such movement, or (in some applications) if it attempts to pass at an excessive speed.

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Understanding

Understanding is a psychological process related to an abstract or physical object, such as a person, situation, or message whereby one is able to think about it and use concepts to deal adequately with that object.

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Violet Town rail accident

The Violet Town rail accident, also known as the Southern Aurora disaster, was a railway accident that occurred on 7 February 1969 near the McDiarmids Road crossing, approximately 1 km south of Violet Town, Victoria, Australia.

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Wembley Central rail crash

The Wembley Central rail crash was a fatal railway accident that occurred on 11 October 1984 just outside Wembley Central railway station, Greater London.

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Work train

A work train or departmental train (engineering train in the UK) is one or more rail cars intended for internal non-revenue use by the railroad's operator.

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Wrawby Junction rail crash

The Wrawby Junction rail crash was a train crash which occurred on 9 December 1983, at Wrawby Junction, near Barnetby station in North Lincolnshire, England.

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1897 Gentofte train crash

In the Gentofte train crash at Gentofte station, Denmark, on the island of Zealand, on 11 June 1897 an express train passed a signal cautioning danger and collided with a stationary passenger train waiting at the station.

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1906 Washington, D.C., train wreck

The 1906 Washington, D.C., train wreck occurred on the Metropolitan Branch of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad at Terra Cotta station in Washington, D.C., on December 30, 1906, at 6:31 in the evening, when a locomotive pulling six empty cars crashed into the back of a passenger train in dense fog, killing 53 people and injuring more than 70.

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1913 Ais Gill rail accident

The Ais Gill rail accident occurred on the Settle-Carlisle Railway in the north of England on 2 September 1913.

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1987 Maryland train collision

The 1987 Maryland train collision occurred at 1:30 pm on January 4, 1987, on Amtrak's Northeast Corridor main line.

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1995 Russell Hill subway accident

The 1995 Russell Hill subway accident was a deadly train crash that occurred in Toronto, Ontario, Canada on Line 1 Yonge–University of the Toronto subway on August 11, 1995.

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1996 Maryland train collision

The 1996 Maryland train collision was an opposite-direction collision that occurred on February 16, 1996, when a MARC commuter train collided with Amtrak's Capitol Limited passenger train in Silver Spring, Maryland.

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2006 Rome Metro crash

The 2006 Rome Metro crash occurred on 17 October 2006 at 9:37am local time (07:37 UTC), when one train ploughed into another train as it unloaded passengers at the Vittorio Emanuele underground station in the city centre, killing a 30-year-old Italian woman, named Alessandra Lisi, and injuring about 145 others, of which a dozen were reported to be in life-threatening conditions.

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2008 Chatsworth train collision

The Chatsworth train collision occurred at 4:22 p.m. PDT (23:22 UTC) on Friday, September 12, 2008, when a Union Pacific freight train and a Metrolink commuter train collided head-on in the Chatsworth district of Los Angeles, California.

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2010 Badarwas train collision

The 2010 Badarwas train collision occurred on 20 September 2010, at Badarwas, Madhya Pradesh, India, when two trains collided with each other.

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2011 Saxony-Anhalt train collision

The 2011 Saxony-Anhalt train collision occurred on 29 January 2011, when a freight train and a passenger train collided near Hordorf in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany on the Magdeburg–Thale line.

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References

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

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