Harrow and Wealdstone train disaster 67 years later
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ต.ค. 2019
- 1 train crashing is bad enough, 2 trains colliding is even worse, but a 3 train crash is nothing more than a terrible catastrophe as was the case at Harrow and Wealdstone.
This may of been rushed together due to me totally forgetting to do this thanks to all the stress October has put me through. This also had to go under a script rewrite at the last minute during editing due to me not liking the original (hence the narration clips sounding different in some parts) But I think it's worth it.
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Looking back the sound design of the impact still gives me chills... I can still see the mental image of it all happening.
So do I, a year and a half later
The screaming in the background of the crashing really added to the fright level to the sounds as well. Did you know that my town once had a near similar train wreck in 1881?
@@lycanmotions What was it, specifically?
1881 Blackburn with Darwen train wreck that killed seven people. The forces of the collision from both Manchester Express and the stationary Liverpool train was severe enough that parts of the glass or roof panelling fell from the station fell on to the crashed trains underneath.
@@lycanmotions Glass or roof panelling? wow
when i hear the whistles sound before the impact. my god, its like the engine itself is screaming for dear life...gives me shivers
It’s like there screaming for life but they get scraped
It’s the scariest thing ever my god
Wrong whistles
Expected from a thomas fan
I always picture in my head the train with a face like Thomas and friend show, but more serious, I picture that trains scream as a whistle and crashing into the other engine of this wreckage.
You forgot to add that Princess Anne Was A former Experimental Locomotive Named “Turbomotive” And If This Disaster Never Happens, There will be no 71000 “Duke of Gloucester”. (Because it’s was A Replacement to Princess Anne
Thus did the turbo motives career end, not with a whimper, but a bang the likes of which none want to see
It was rebuilt from the turbomotive to a Princess Royal class (interestingly, Princess Anne was not an exact rebuild, but was close enough to be part of the class). It had only been realeased into service for six weeks after the rebuild.
It's most likely the parts of the former turbomotive would be salvaged for the duke either way
Yeah the turbomotive was such a success if only it was still preserved
Oh... Okay.
The Crash Sound rips my heart.. it fears and saddened all at the same time.
I heard the screaming when the two trains collided
Not sure what you're expecting
@@tweetsietom7376 Same here. i almost cried because that also horrified me.
I’m 13 what do you mean
@@Night_Star6248 What? i didn't say anything about you. i was just talking to tomtherailfan
The Owl Fan new channel I don’t know what the owner of the comment is talking about
JESUS CHRIST THAT WAS THE MOST VIOLENT CRASH I'VE EVER HEARD FROM THIS SERIES
Same here! That sounded horrifying!
SAMEE
How about Ufa
SAME
@@willhorowitz8806 Ufa was nothing compared to how horrific this one sounded.
just thinking about the people in the crash makes me feel like crying
I feel sorry for all the passengers and crew who died in this accident
It was 112.
112 confirmed dead
And 340 injured
Yep.
Garrett the train guy and the locomotives of the Liverpool express.
This wreck was mentioned in Velocity: Runaway Train.
They have to stop The Runaway Trains.
I remember seeing that when I was younger
And then watching sunset limited 60 minites
Peter Rosenquist original or sequel?
@@richieosborn2639 the original one, I saw it.
"I don't need to slow down!" - gordon
Liar!
*a n d t h e n t h e r e w a s t r o u b l e*-Narrator
:/
Except that one time with Percy
As a modern day UK railwayman, who lives in one of the cities involved in this accident I find a few things interesting in this video.
1. For an American, your pronunciation of Ruislip was outstanding!
2. Despite that and without wanting to be perceived as having a go . . .
Wealdstone is pronounced 'Wield (as in to wield a sword) - stun'
3. AWS and its Successor TPWS are now widespread across UK railways, and had the US implemented similar systems (and safeguards associated with those systems such as Morpeth boards and driver reminder appliances) crashes such as the recent Frankford Jn. Incident and the more historical Silver springs collision would've almost certainly been avoided.
4. It's of note that another train was named 'City of Glasgow' many years later - this too was involved in a crash and was, infact, written off. On Feburary 23rd, 2007 - five year old Virgin Trains Pendolino no. 390033 'City of Glasgow' hit an improperly maintained set of points at Grayrigg in Cumbria, North west England. The train derailed, travelling at approximately 90mph and toppled down an embankment. 1 passenger sadly died, but 12 years later it remains (touch wood) the last incident on UK railways in which a fare paying passenger lost their life.
I'd be interested to see you cover the Grayrigg derailment - but I would cover it together with the Potters Bar and Hatfield crashes aswell. All three were down to poor track maintenance (the first two, poor maintenance of switches and the 3rd was poor rail condition leading to a rail shattering under the speeding train).
Thats Intresting about the City of glasgow, both were on thee WCML Too
@@Spacebug111 indeed.
Sadly since writing this, two years ago, there has been another fatal rail crash in the UK. A driver, conductor and passenger killed at Carmont in Aberdeenshire in August 2020 due to their train colliding with a landslip (due to an improperly built and maintained drainage channel) and derailing at 75mph.
That when the trains collided that sound was just horrifying
I heard that there was a multi-track failure on the New York Central in 1953 that involved *4* trains.
Now that will be bad. oh god, i think i can already hear the sound effects thunderbolt 1000 siren productions will put in..
i hope he sees this comment
Edit: but we might have to wait until march 27th though.
No you gotta be pulling my leg! 4?
@@Thunderbolt_1000_Siren No, this actually happened in Ohio. March 27, caused by improperly secured cargo, killing 21.
I live in ohio
Idea for documentary
Febuary 3, 2020: Valhalla Train Crash 5 years later
i think he saw you're suggestion, i think he did it
Curtis Warren BTW STOP BEGGING no he didn’t
Concorde AF4590 he wasn’t begging
@@brodster7042 the Begging thing is part of his name
@@TankEngine75 oh
2:39 we call that a “brake coach”. brake vans are for our goods traffic
Darn I'm gonna be at school when it premiers. I'm on lunch break now.
Wait a second... It says for me that the video came 2 hours ago... And your comment says it was made 4 hours ago...
Well.
TH-cam algorithm.
@@thecursedcombine3951 because you're able to comment before a premier actually begins.
Harrison La time traveler same bruh
Skip school
Nothing’s stopping you
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I sometimes call this disaster The British Railways Great Train Wreck of 1952 given how catastrophic it looked and how big the wreckage looked at that station.
It's very sad to what had happened in this accident that not many people would know about, but I doubt for sure the AWS would've worked on steam locomotives; given how it would've cost a lot to install in them all at the time and the difficulties it would have been like in today's world.
True Fact: (For those who don't know) 46202 'Princess Anne' was a successful experimental turbine locomotive in it's early years on the LMS before it was rebuilt 2 months before the tragic wreck. 71000 'Duke Of Gloucester', the only Standard Class 8 of it's kind, is said to have the original salvaged pieces from 'Princess Anne' after she was scrapped.
The location of this crash would’ve been on the stretch of track literally just behind my house, I’ve walked past that Mural hundreds or thousands of times and had no idea it was there to commemorate the victims of the crash, great video!
Now 68 years later. RIP to the 112 people that lost their lives. 🙏🙌
I know this is in bad taste and I’ll delete this if it’s too hurtful but
Sir tophamm hat was cross
You should do the Quintenshill disaster of 1915, wreaked 3 trains and derailed 2 more!
Captain Speedbird1974 the deadliest train wreck in history
@@AJsBusVideos, Britain's history, that is.
@@pacificcy3182 Then what is the deadliest.
Singapore Pearl, MD Reborn, Anthony Penman, I think it was that one train crash in Sri Lanka where an over loaded passenger train was hit by a tsunami in 2004 and approx. 1,500 died. At least I think.
Tell more about this wreck of 1915 you speak of right the f now
You should do some CSX derailments.
That is just me as I grew up watching csx pull auto racks with my dad
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Cayce
Wow that was amazing! Thank you so much!
The Unaired Thomas & Friends Episode
For being age-restricted and graphic
From Banned from Television
funny
You hate Minecraft?
*I think we found someone with small brain*
@@realcanadian96 he didn't say that idiot
@@realcanadian96 minecraft + beamng
the british corination class engine looks really nice, I love smoke deflectors
Coronation*
2:42 oh shit, here we go again
Your train knowledge is amazing I enjoy your videos they’re so good keep up the good work 👍🏻👍🏻
My great aunt took one of those trains to work every day. She was late that day and survived because of it.
God bless her
Love your videos Thunderbolt! Can't wait for future documentaries and streams! All the best!
This has got to be the worst train disaster in British Rail history
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quintinshill_rail_disaster the real worst
Well, it would have been.... If the Quintonshill rail disaster didn't occur.
2:42-3:05 rest in peace earphone users
Uh oh... not good. EDIT: JESUS CHRIST THAT WAS HORRIFYING
This guy needs more views man to go and search up all this information must take alot of time.
Arthur was going too fast! “Move!” Yelled Thomas, but then they saw James. “AAAAAHHH!!!” Then there was trouble...
Luckily Thomas, Arthur, and James weren’t hurt, although they had a few scratches here and there (you know what I mean). Unfortunately, everyone was seriously hurt. The SSaRC was 60km away, and Judy and Jerome were too far. 2 hours later, the Rescue Team has made it. Unfortunately, many people lost their lives.
That's an LMS Fairburn 2-6-4T
3:03 sounds like a war
Your not wrong
@@jakeford12 WRONG
wrong
@@trainz1225 can you explain please I’m just interested to see why I’m wrong
This was a rather shameful accident. To make things more disturbing, I’ve read that some witnesses remember seeing bodies flying through the air. Also the fact that the station clock stopped at the exact time of the accident: 8:19am. That should be an interesting concept for a horror movie. And one thing is worth pointing out, 4 Jubilee locomotives and 3 Princess Coronation Pacifics have been preserved.
The "bodies flying through the air" were of those thrown out of the coaches
Damn that wreck was so violent!
On a misty October morning tragity came to north London
Hahahaha
@@martini_0339 If the comment makes you laugh, does this also? 2:32
As a graduate Engineer, I worked in the Chief Civil Engineers Department Euston in 1960. Many of the staff travelled on the Euston bound local train and those who had survived said that the office was eerily quiet that morning. One Engineer said that, as he was late for the train, he was running across the footbridge, which was parly demolished in the accident, and the next thing found himself sitting on the track ballast
On that day I was waiting at Wembley station for the train to Watford for work, a very foggy morning and we were transferred to buses because of the awful crash at Wealdstone. On the bus going over the bridge at Wealdstone we looked down on the wrecked trains and on one platform stretchers with the dead bodies were stacked up, if the Trolls who have joked about "Thomas" in the comments had seen that they wouldn't be making inane remarks now!
@@peterperryman2800 I do not subscribe to Twitter for the very same reason that you made about the inane comments on TH-cam.
Train: *wrecks*
Vector: Oh poop
Oh 💩 poop
WOW that's just too good 🤣
@@kiryu-chan1590 lmao
His name's "Victor"
I was here exactly 1 year ago,watching this in an empty classroom of my college on a chilly October morning!
Ouch. I'm glad 3 train collisions are rare.
You want to know why the death toll of harrow and Wealdstone was so high compared to other 3 train crashes like clapham junction or Glendale? Two words.
Wooden coaches
That was amazing. Probably my favourite one yet.
dominic bruh dude how is this amazing. Hella ppl died..
@@yeahno.3037 maybe they mean his editing and storytelling? That's what I immediately assumed.
Hey, any chance you could do a video on the Southern Pacific roundhouse explosion of 1912, is said to be one of the worst railroad disasters in history due to the devastating destruction of the incident.
The princess class used to be a 1 of a kind steem turbine loco. And to replace it class 8P 71000 Duke of Gloucester was constructed it servives today. Love the video mate ceep it up.
2:24 46202 "Princess Anne" was originally built as the Turbomotive
He has made a video without thinking yet I can not tell the difference
Without thinking???
When this was uploaded I was about to go to school, I went on the computer and noticed this, so I watched some of it. The rest I watched after school.
Great reporting. Always find your videos done well. Have you got anything on the Nuneaton crash of 1975? I remember that one vividly. Thanks😸
It's ok dude you did a superper job on this latest video. You do what you are able to do
Great Docmentary i have watched in this series
When the crash happened i got chills
Oh and the princess ann was originally the LMS Turbomotive when i found that out i almost went into shock as i knew this accident before you documented this accident
I remember this accident was mentioned in top 20 USA & UK extinct locomotives from Jim Van Der Kolk
I was wondering if you would make a video on this accident. I remember seeing this on Runaway Trains. The sight of the carnage is just chilling. Seeing the coaches AND engines completely is something else.
Holy shrimp that sound affect is scary AF
That's gotta hurt not just by the screams but, the fact the wooden passenger cars causing even more injuries and giving people more than just splinters! 😭😭😭😱😱😰😱😰😰
You mean deaths?
You know it's funny, I was going to request if you could do this documentary, but I didn't want to pile any other rail disaster documentary on you at the time.
The sounds of the crashing trains sound brutal.
Rest in pieces all 4 locomotives
Right as I heard that crashing sound, lightning struck outside my window. Holy shit.
I'm speechless
After all these documentaries about train crashes I don’t wanna go on a train anymore
And Don't forget the amount of lms duchesses that survived there are 3 of them 6229 duchess of Hamilton,6233 duchess of sutherland and 6235 city of Birmingham
Enough force to destroy one of the platform bridges. That must be registered as one of the worst railway disasters involving a station and one of the most fatal train crashes in UK soil.
Damn what a horrific train crash involving three trains, and I got a little bit scared from the sound effects of the crash and people screaming
I like how you used the break squeal from the movie The Train.
I recognized that brake squeal.
@@patricklee1633 That's because It Was Also Used In Thomas & Friends
This has become my fav channel on YT.
Aww thanks
@@Thunderbolt_1000_SirenThis also gives me the chills watching this video, and it makes me want to make a documentary of that crash too.
if that next train after the overpacked one wasnt cancled it would've been a four-train pileup
It doesn't quite work like that. It may have been nowhere near the scene.
And when 6202 became a regular steam engine by British railways it wasn't a princess royal but a princess coronation because one of its cylinder blocks were from a coronation pacific
In the loving memory to those who passed away in that tragic disaster and I hope this video will probably get a remastered version soon
46202 used to be a experimental steam turbine called the Turbomotive.
And from 1937-1948 10 coronations have been streamlined for the coronation scot while the first 5 6220-6224 were built with blue and silver streamlining the last five 6225-6229 had the same streamlining except that it had red and gold paint
That whistle gave me the chills
2:44 rip headphone users
I’m in trouble then
Can you do the 1990 Back Bay Disaster next? 😊
Also Im goinv to miss the premiere cause I am in school. 😕
Lincoln's Aviation looks like your in failing spelling class
@@justinhicks4897 so are you it seems because spelling class does not exist. That's called English Class and used the wrong your. You're = you are
Your not alone, i also miss premieres because of school
@@justinhicks4897
You just pissed off a Russian!
*I AM RUSSIAN!*
Now stop before you get a free ticket to gulag.
I just realized what you mean, lol 😂
I was in class while typinv it. 😂🚉
That was really great Crashing sound effect. Where is this sound effect from? 2:40
Wow... Imagine being those people being trapped inside the crushed coaches. so gruesome. i could imagine seeing ghost trains rushing past the station and fading into thin air. since its october.
0:52 bakerloo line and overground:am I am joke to you?
Imagine being the guard actually witnessing this
You realize that the Princess Anne used to be the famous TURBOMOTIVE? ❤
Rest in peace 112 people
Happy 71st birthday to the disaster!
Fun fact the coronation pacifics wich were built by sir William A Stainier were an upgrade of Stainiers previous princess royal pacifics
I like that you add a Thomas & Friends sound effects and crash sound affects
Who knew that harrow would come
2:43 I got chills..
Wow didn't realise how bad it actually was as wasn't born til the 80's but remember my uncle talking about it growing up as he used to get one of those trains to harrow & wealdstone every day for work but that day was his day off, scared me to think he could have died then and never met him, feel for all the people that died and were injured that day and for all their families
This was a good video all I have to say is. Luckily no one was hurt
Great video!
I was in school when this was premiering and I could not see it until the end of the video
GOD DAMN THAT TRAIN IS GONE!
Man imagine what a survivor would describe it on the news
I've heard much of this accident. It's crazy how much destruction happened in such a short time and that the force of the collision was enough to freeze time on the station clocktower. If this accident wouldn't have happened, that would have been two speeding express trains barreling through the station at once while the commuter train was beginning to set out. That sound effect you used was brutal, but fitting for what happened. Once again, an example of it being cheaper to have the accident than install new safety equipment. Sure AWS was in it's early years but something is better than nothing
Check out the Great East Thompson Train Wreck of 1891. It was a four train collision and one of the most extensive wrecks in American history.
2:41 I got the chills
2:44 Imagine being there! I’d be ducking for cover immediately!
Can you do the 1995 Sunset Limited crash? Technically you already did in another video, but can you make a separate video?
3:16 Boy That Reminds Me Of The Big One In The Nascar Daytona Clash.
Oh yea
Mini bigs The profile pic says it all
This was the second worst train accident ever in the UK. There was a major collision in Quintinshill. If you're on a train to Glasgow, Quintinshill is right after the Scotland boundary from England
OH MY GOD!!! THAT CRASH WAS SCARY!!! Great video by the way!👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻