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Sutton Coldfield Train Disaster 1955

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Sutton Coldfield Train Disaster 1955 is shown as a memorial on the public map of Birmingham. The saved point is the map point or the centre of its mapped shape.
On 22 February 1955, a head-on collision between two passenger trains near Sutton Coldfield resulted in 18 deaths and over 150 injuries, marking one of the worst rail disasters in the West Midlands. The memorial commemorates the victims and serves as a reminder of the importance of railway safety improvements that followed.

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