page_title: List of rail accidents (before 1880)
section_title: 1862
hierarchical_section_title: List of rail accidents (before 1880) / 1860s / 1862
caption_attribution_description: Winchburgh rail accident of 1862
context_page_description: 1650, – United Kingdom – Whickham, County Durham. Two boys die when they are run down by a wagon on a wooden coal train way. While such tramway accidents are not generally listed as rail accidents this is sometimes cited as the earliest known railway accident.
context_section_description: May 1862 – United Kingdom – A London, Chatham and Dover Railway passenger train is derailed at Faversham, Kent due to defective track. Three people are killed.
  October 13, 1862 – United Kingdom – Winchburgh rail crash - Two Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway passenger trains are in a head-on collision at Winchburgh, Linlithgowshire due to a pointsman's error. Fifteen people are killed and 35 are injured.
caption: Winchburgh rail crash
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