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1890 Norton Fitzwarren rail crash

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The Norton Fitzwarren rail crash occurred on 11 November 1890, at Norton Fitzwarren station on the Great Western Railway, approximately two miles south-west of Taunton in Somerset. A special boat train carrying passengers from Plymouth to Paddington collided with a goods train that was being shunted on the main line. Ten passengers were killed, and eleven people (including the driver and fireman of the special train) were seriously injured.Another significant accident occurred at Norton Fitzwarren in 1940.

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1890 Norton Fitzwarren rail crash
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