| Incorrect. No such collisions ever happened here. Commuter trains generally
don't exceed 100 mph, the long disatnce ones, which would be much more prone to
such accidents, generally run at 125 mph. There was some research done in the
1970s, and a bit later, and new designs of train are tested passing at speed,
but there has never been a collision. There may have been minor damage due to
air pressure fluctuations, possibly even the odd window displaced from its
frame, but that is all. Every train accident in the UK is well documented
somewhere, nowadays on the RAIB website, but they were always investigated and
reported on in great detail prior to that, and invariably end up in the many
books on the subject. There were a couple of idiots killed in the early 1970s,
in one accident. Both had stuck their heads out of windows and were looking
backwards along their respective trains.... Recently there were a couple of
incidents involving freight trains, one with a container with what was basically
a loose side panel, and the other a covering on a tank which unpeeled, but they
were nothing to do with speed or proximity of tracks, nor was any commuter train
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