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There have been three major rail accidents near in Cheshire: ==1948 accident== On 17 April 1948, 24 people died when the 17:40 Glasgow to London Euston train was stopped after the communication cord was pulled by a passenger (a soldier on leave who presumably lived near Winsford and was seen to leave the train after it had stopped). The stopped train was then run into by a following postal express hauled by LMS Coronation Class 4-6-2 No 6251 ''City of Nottingham''. The collision happened at between and was so severe that only five of the ten passenger coaches could be pulled away on their wheels and only the rear eight of the 13 Postal coaches could be pulled back. 24 passengers were killed. The signalman at had, in error, reported the passenger train clear of the section and accepted the postal train. The person who pulled the emergency cord was a railway employee who worked as a signalbox lad in Winsford Junction, but was currently serving in the army having been called up. He thought that the train would be perfectly safe because he knew how the signalling equipment of the time in that area worked; but he did not know that the train had stopped short of the track circuit, which would have reminded the signalman of its presence. He attended the enquiry to confess, and was still a signalman in Winsford Junction until he retired in the 1990s. ==1962 accident - Coppenhall Junction== On the evening of 26 December 1962, cold weather and snow in and around had caused points to become frozen and trains were being detained at signals. About midway between Winsford and Crewe, the English Electric type 4 diesel D346 hauled 13:30 to London ''Midday Scot'' with 13 coaches and 500 passengers was stopped at a signal but the driver found the telephone to Coppenhall Junction, the next signal box ahead, out of order. Seeing the next signal ahead he decided to proceed down towards it and use the telephone there, but in the darkness failed to notice the 16:45 express from to , hauled by an electric locomotive with eight coaches with 300 passengers, standing on the line ahead and collided with it at about . The rear coaches of the Liverpool train were badly damaged in the collision, some of them being telescoped. 18 passengers were killed and 34 were injured. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rail accidents in Winsford」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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