An Irish Mail passenger train collides near…

August 1868 CE

An Irish Mail passenger train collides near Abergele, Wales, with four cargo trucks loaded with paraffin on August 20, 1868.

Thirty-three are killed in what is the first major train disaster in Britain.

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Abergele Denbighshire United Kingdom View →

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