"I had people ringing me from all over the place, asking where Steve was, if he was all right, and of course at that point I didn't know anything myself at all.". Box 0599 01072015 00425a.jpg. Reading, Berkshire: Signalman's error results in passenger train colliding with goods wagons. "Now, being a railwayman, I thought he'd either missed a speed restriction sign or there was something else wrong. 179182. Fatal accidents have occurred involving trams; the worst took place in Dover in 1917, when a tram ran away down a hill and overturned, killing 11 people and injuring 60. I don't remember anything else after that," he says. Safety Summary by Job. April 11, 1974: A two-car Ravenswood train (cars 6047-6048) fails to make a turn and derails on the Loop at Lake and Wells near Tower 18. Virginia Water, Surrey. "What time allows you to do is to fold it up so it's manageable. 1857 Lewisham rail crash - Wikipedia "Massive cranes were brought in, roadways had to be laid in the middle of farmers' fields, and this was in the middle of the foot and mouth epidemic to make matters more difficult," he says. [376], The 'Railway Work, Life & Death' project is uncovering details of British and Irish staff accidents before 1939 and making them freely available, via a database of transcriptions of staff accident investigations and other related records. ,