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- September 19
The destroyed cab of British Rail Class 86 86211, which was written off in the Colwich rail crash
- 1810 – Thomas Nickerson, president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway 1874-1880, is born (d. 1892).
- 1882 – Oliver Bulleid, chief mechanical engineer of Southern Railway in Great Britain 1937-1948, is born (d. 1970).
- 1986 – Two high-speed trains collide near Rugeley, Staffordshire, England, in the Colwich rail crash (pictured); the driver of one of the two trains was the only fatality of this accident.
- 1997 – In the Southall rail crash, the 1032 Great Western Intercity passenger train from Swansea to London Paddington, operating with a defective Automatic Warning System indicator passes a red signal (SPAD) and collides with a freight train leaving its depot, shortly before 1320 local time.
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