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By Staff Reporter A plaque was unveiled in Abermule to remember 100 years since the railway disaster on January 26, 1921. Pic: Network Rail A memorial plaque to remember the 17 people who died in the Abermule train collision, which happened 100 years ago today, has been unveiled. On January 26, 1921, two trains collided head-on on the Cambrian line, killing 17 people in what remains one of the biggest rail collisions in the UK. To mark the centenary, wreaths have been laid in the village on behalf of Network Rail, Abermule with Lla...

SHORTLY after midday on January 26, 1921, a rail disaster in Abermule would claim the lives of 17 people. The disaster remains the worst single track accident in British railway history and would hasten the demise of the Cambrian Railway which was absorbed into the Great Western Railway a year later. Among the victims was Lord Herbert Vane-Tempest, a director of the Cambrian Railway, who had boarded the train in Machynlleth that morning though tragically died when two trains met in a head on collision near Abermule. News of the disaster spread around the world and Abermule would becom...