passenger train and a coal train on the Taff Vale Railway line at Hopkinstown, outside Pontypridd in Wales, resulted in the loss of eleven (twelve according...

significant accidents involving railway rolling stock, including crashes, fires and incidents of crew being overcome by locomotive emissions. Other railway-related...

Southern Railway introduces the Carolina Special between Cincinnati, Ohio and Charleston, South Carolina. January 23 – The Pontypridd railway accident in South...

Pontypridd railway station serves the town of Pontypridd in Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales. It is located at the junction of the Merthyr line and the Rhondda...

The Invergowrie rail accident happened in Invergowrie, Scotland, on 22 October 1979. The accident killed five people and injured 51 others. The 08:44 passenger...

23 – United Kingdom – Pontypridd railway accident. A collision between a passenger train and coal train on the Taff Vale Railway at Hopkinstown killed...

There have been four railway accidents at Potters Bar in England. Those in 1898 and 1946 were signals passed at danger. The accident in 2002 led to substantial...

road is on the site of the railway bingo club he frequented. List of rail accidents in the United Kingdom Lists of rail accidents "Engineer dies in rail crash"...

signal box rested with the stationmaster at Gretna railway station who, on the day of the accident, was Alexander Thorburn. The box was staffed by one...

train, at Coke Ovens, near Pontypridd, on the Taff Vale Railway" "The Accidents". Railway Work, Life & Death project accident database. Retrieved 5 January...

train were killed in the accident. The accident accelerated the introduction of the Automatic Warning System, and British Railways agreed to a five-year...

line of the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER), killing 35 people. Snow was falling at the time of the accident. The Edinburgh train hit the rear of...

Official report into the 1969 accident at The Railways Archive Official report into the 1984 accident at The Railways Archive 55°09′40″N 1°41′09″W /...

Hafod Junction; with Taff Vale Railway; opened July 1889; closed June 1951 Pontypridd; opened 16 March 1896; renamed Pontypridd Graig 1924; closed 7 July 1930;...

fencing where livestock were adjacent to the railway. In 2009, on the 25th anniver­sary of the accident, a memorial plaque at Polmont station was erected...

Sevenoaks railway accident occurred on 24 August 1927 between Dunton Green railway station and Sevenoaks railway station. The Southern Railway's afternoon...

The King's Cross railway accident occurred on 4 February 1945, at London King's Cross railway station on the East Coast Main Line of the London & North...

that "some of the lessons from the 1988 Clapham Junction accident are fading from the railway industry's collective memory". Hidden 1989, pp. iv, 1, 4...

others were derailed. The formal accident investigation was undertaken by Lieutenant Colonel I. K. A. McNaughton of the Railway Inspectorate. The investigation...

Grove rail crash (also known as the Paddington rail crash) was a rail accident which occurred on 5 October 1999 at Ladbroke Grove in London, England,...

Since the earliest days of public railways in the UK, railway accidents were investigated by Her Majesty's Railway Inspectorate, an independent body of...

000 from the Taff Vale Railway towards the construction costs ensured alignment to that company's system, so that Pontypridd, and not Cardiff, was the...

assisted at the accident, successfully sued the British Railways Board for the "nervous shock" he experienced. The case, Chadwick v British Railways Board, an...

Hamilton., J.A.B. British Railway Accidents of the 20th Century (reprinted as Tracks to Disaster). Nock, O.S. (1980). Historic Railway Disasters (2nd ed.)....

is by the railway bridge close to the site of the accident. On 19 August 2021, CrossCountry train 220009 was named Hixon at Stafford railway station in...

The Spa Road Junction rail crash was an accident on the British railway system which occurred during the peak evening rush hour of 8 January 1999 at Spa...

visible against the road bridge that stands behind it. "Accident Enquiry Report" (PDF). Railways Archive. Archived from the original (pdf) on 31 December...

equipment, rail services were restored the next day. The accident was investigated by Her Majesty's Railway Inspectorate. Public hearings were held at the Merchant's...

crash was a train collision that occurred just to the north of Purley railway station in the London Borough of Croydon on Saturday 4 March 1989, leaving...

brake, the collision occurred at more than 80 mph (130 km/h). The later accident inquiry report found that: At 13:20, the front power car of the HST collided...