Portal:Trains/Anniversaries/September 19

1810 – Thomas Nickerson, president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway 1874–1880, is born (d. 1892).
1986 – Two high speed trains collide near Rugeley, Staffordshire, England, in the Colwich rail crash; 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.