Glasgow Bellgrove rail accident
- Glasgow Bellgrove rail accident
infobox UK rail accident
title= Glasgow Bellgrove rail crash
date= 6 March 1989
location= near Bellgrove, Glasgow
line = North Clyde Line
(Strathclyde Passenger Transport)
cause= Signal Passed At Danger
trains= 2
pax=
deaths= 2
injuries=
On March 6 1989 two Class 303 commuter trains crashed on the Springburn branch of the North Clyde Line, just east of Bellgrove station in the East End of Glasgow. One passenger and the driver of one of the trains were killed.
The accident was of a type known as "ding-ding, and away"; caused primarily by a SPAD (Signal Passed At Danger) in conjunction with the single-lead junction track layout, where two lines converged into one just beyond the platform end and then diverged again - a layout which is simpler to maintain but is vulnerable in the event of a SPAD. This type of junction has been implicated in other accidents, notably to the south east of Glasgow in the Newton rail accident just a couple of years later.
References
External links
* [http://www.railwaysarchive.co.uk/docSummary.php?docID=263 Official accident report courtesy of the Railways Archive]
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