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On the evening of 4 December 1957, two trains crashed in dense fog on the South Eastern Main Line near Lewisham in south-east London, causing the deaths of 90 people and injuring 173.
Nov 30, 2007 · Fifty years ago on 4th December 1957, two trains crashed at St Johns Railway Station just outside Lewisham, in south east London. 90 people were killed and nearly 200 more were injured.
It was inevitable in these circumstances that the casualty list was very great, and I much regret to state that 90 persons altogether lost their lives; 88 passengers and the guard of the electric train were killed outright, and one passenger died later of his injuries.
Dec 4, 2017 · Sixty years ago today, on a foggy evening on December 4 1957, a steam train collided with an electric train held at a red signal outside St Johns station in Lewisham, resulting in 90 fatalities and 176 injuries.
Mar 12, 2003 · Even so, more than 90 people were killed and 176 were injured. Emergency services worked through the night to get the badly injured out of the wreckage but their efforts were hampered by the...
- Jack Lefley
Nov 30, 2017 · The crash impacted on multiple generations of the same family – Roy Harold Taylor of Tonbridge was 34 and a partner in a firm of stockbrokers at the London Stock Exchange – he died in the crash, his father was also on the train but survived unhurt. Roy left behind two young children and his wife, Marjorie.
In all 90 people died as a result of the accident, and another 173 were injured. By a strange coincidence Lewisham had been the scene of another fatal rail crash 100 years previously, 11 people killed when again one train ploughed into the rear of another that was stationary.
