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The UK's rail network is one of the safest in the world, but this is a reputation that has been hard-won through a dark history of death and destruction. Each of these accidents has helped to prevent another in the future. Signals to Danger is a series of Podcasts exploring and explaining the worst disasters on the UK rail network. Using reports, inquiries, news articles and first hand accounts, we will dive deep into these accidents and understand what went wrong, who was effected and how each incident went on to change the railway going forwards.
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84 episodes
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LATEST EPISODE 🔗
On the morning of Monday 12 December 1988, three trains collided on the approaches to London's Clapham Junction station, killing 35 people and injuring 484 others.
It was the height of the morning rush hour. Thousands of commuters were travelling towards London Waterloo, relying on one of Britain's…
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On the night of 5 July 1978, passengers boarded the overnight sleeper service from Penzance to London Paddington, expecting to wake the following morning as their train approached the capital.
But in the early hours of 6 July, as the train approached Taunton in Somerset, a fire developed aboard one…
Moving freight by rail sounds straightforward: choose a wagon, load it up and send it on its way. But behind an uneventful arrival lies a system of engineering decisions, examinations, handling restrictions and communication.
Following our episodes on Linslade and Surbiton, this time we follow an i…
On 4 July 1971, a ballast train passing through Surbiton derailed into the path of a Portsmouth Harbour passenger service approaching at 72 miles an hour.
The collision left the leading passenger carriage on its side, damaged both trains and tore up the railway. Remarkably, nobody lost their life.
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Bedford: What We Know and What We Don’t
On 19 June 2026, two passenger trains collided near Elstow, south of Bedford. Driver Shaun Burton lost his life, and at least 160 people were injured.
RAIB has now published its interim report. In this Rail Safety Review, we examine the evidence released so f…
In the early hours of 9 December 1982, a late-running sleeper service departed London Euston for Glasgow.
Ahead of it, a freight train had passed through Linslade Tunnel carrying prefabricated railway components. One of those components had moved beyond the loading gauge, struck the tunnel portal a…
“The wrong kind of leaves” has become one of the railway’s most frequently mocked excuses—but leaves on the line create a genuine and potentially serious safety problem.
In this episode of Signals to Danger, we explore how fallen leaves are transformed into a stubborn layer of contamination on the …
On 21 October 2024, two Transport for Wales trains collided head-on near Talerddig on the Cambrian Line.
It was a route controlled using ETCS — one of the most advanced signalling systems in use on the British railway — yet the accident began with one of the oldest challenges the railway has ever f…
How does the railway find a crack hidden inside a solid steel rail—and what happens when it does?
In this Rail Safety Review, we explore how rails become damaged, the development of metal fatigue and rolling-contact fatigue, and the overlapping safeguards used to prevent defects becoming broken rai…
On the evening of 5 November 1967, a packed passenger train was making an otherwise ordinary journey from Hastings towards London Charing Cross when, on the approach to Hither Green, its third coach suddenly derailed at around 70 mph.
What followed became one of Britain's deadliest post-war railway…
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