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AAbbie Sweetwine, 95Abbots Ripton, 5Aberdeen, 35, 59, 62, 89, 101, 107, 111, 138Abu Dhabi, 122, 126accident inquiries, 33, 55, 184accident investigation, 2–3, 26, 95, 149, 184accident ratios, 176accidents mysterious, 50 separate, 24, 34, 62, 73, 75Acton, 145Addiscombe-Cannon Street, 100Advanced Passenger Train, 166AHBs (automatic half-barrier), 9, 93, 113, 125Air Accident Investigation Branch, 153Air Raid Precautions (ARP), 77Ais Gill, 48–49, 51, 63Alan Mount, 53Aldershot-Waterloo, 45Alistair Darling, 161, 163Allan, 109Ambergate, 21Angel, 95Anglia Railways Class, 161Anglo-Scottish West Coast Main Line, 153Animals straying, 119Anmarie Landi, 184Annual Railway Safety Directorate Staff Conference, 181Anthony Hidden QC, 118Anthony Hidden’s recommendation, 130AOCL (Automatic Open Crossings), 113, 125Appleton, Paul, 124Arlington, 95army, 29, 39, 54, 68, 87, 96, 100, 181army engineers, 12 former, 184army officers, 13, 181army’s railway activities, 13ARP (Air Raid Precautions), 77Arthur Yorke KCB Chief, 39Ashchurch, 66–67Ashford, 16, 167Ashton, 15Ashurst, 132Ashurst Loop, 134

ATC (Automatic Train Control), 5–7, 48–49, 53, 59, 65–70, 72, 74, 79, 81–84, 91, 105, 107, 119, 123

ATP (Automatic Train Protection), 7, 48, 62, 110, 119, 129, 136, 139–40, 145–47, 149, 168

Australia, 29Austria, 180automatic half-barrier. See AHBsautomatic hydraulic brakes, 180Automatic Route Setting (ARS), 126, 146Automatic Train Operation (ATO), 126Automatic Train Protection. See ATPAutomatic Warning System. See AWSAWS (Automatic Warning System), 6–7, 13–15, 41, 44, 48, 72, 83, 86, 88, 90–91, 96,

101, 105–8, 110, 119, 123, 132–34, 139–40, 146–47, 149–50, 153, 168Aylesbury, 49–50Ayr, 107Ayrshire coast, 136

BBaker Street station, 59Balby Bridge, 4Baldock, 89, 101Barlow, 36Barlow train, 35Barnard Castle, 26Barnes, 89Barnes East, 89Barnes Junction, 89Barnetby, 123Barnsley, 24, 34Barrow, 26Basingstoke, 116Basingstoke- Waterloo, 116Basque country, 68Bath, 39, 53Battersea, 89Battersea Park, 11Bayswater, 123Bazlinton, Olivia, 176Beamish museum, 16Bedwyn, 151Beeching, 169Belah, 26Belgium, 96, 180Belle Isle extension, 143Bellgrove, 115, 119, 130Bellgrove Fatal Accident Inquiry, 130Bellgrove station, 115

Bence, 5Berkeley Road Junction, 62–63Berlin, 3Berwick, 95Bethnal Green, 96Birkenhead Lancashire & Cheshire Junction Railway, 32Birkett Tunnel, 48Birmingham, 35, 82Birmingham & Gloucester Railway, 21Black Carr, 103Black Carr Sidings, 169Blackfriars section, 33Blackham Junction, 134Blackpool, 59, 143Blackpool’s promenade tramway, 143Blackwall Railway, 24Blair, Tony, 128Blea Moor, 87, 89Blea Moor Tunnel, 89Bletchley, 6, 77–78Block and Brake regulations, 22Block Regulations, 55block signalling, electric, 25block system of signalling, 33–35Bluebell Railways, 178Board of Trade, 5, 10, 16, 19–20, 22, 29, 32–36, 39, 44, 50, 53Board of Trade Requirements, 35Board of Trade Tay Bridge Disaster Inquiry, 138Bob, 68boiler explosions, 32, 34Bombay-Poona, 87Border City, 48Borneo, 3Bosnia, 29Bourne End, 6–7, 14, 79–82Bournemouth train, 124Bow, 21box Signalmen Andrews, 65BR (British Rail), 9, 33, 44, 68, 85–86, 91, 93, 96, 98, 104–5, 107, 110–11, 113, 117,

119, 126, 128, 130, 135, 137, 139, 145–47, 158, 168–69, 175, 177–78, 184Bradford, 83Bradley, Simon, 184Bradshaw’s Railway Manual, 9brake application, 104, 106, 162 automatic, 89, 91brakes, 2, 6, 21, 25–26, 28–29, 32–37, 41, 50, 69, 74, 82, 86, 106–7, 111, 136, 145,

148Brampton, 62

Branchton, 135Brassey & Co, 33BR Automatic Warning System, 6, 107BRB (British Railways Board), 108, 130–32, 139Brent, 89Brett-Andrews, 135Bridge of Dun, 34Bridlington, 113Brig, 87, 95Brighton, 83, 106Brighton & South Coast Railway, 39Bristol, 25, 62, 143, 148Bristol Parkway, 143Britain’s railways, 3, 35, 68, 84, 124, 131, 140, 166, 182Britannia, 85Britannia class, 89British Army, 3, 96, 178–79British rail movements in Germany, 179British Rail Research Dynamics Group, 131British railway capital investment, 25British Railways Board. See BRBBritish steel, 38British Transport Police, 5, 140, 156, 181British Transport Police Superintendent Alistair Cumming, 180Broad Street, 74, 92Brockley Whins, 34broken rails, 91, 98–100, 105, 107–8, 119, 139–40, 143, 172, 184BR’s South Central Train Operating Unit, 133BR’s Southern Region, 106Buckingham, 35Buckley, Colin, 180Bulgaria, 180Burgess, Darren, 180Burkhardt’s Wisconsin Central, 139Burma, 39Burnisland, 28Burnley, 25, 126Bushey, 105Buxton, 56, 159, 184Buxton boiler explosion, 57Byers, 104

CCab Secure Radio (CSR), 133–34Caithness, 137Caldecoat, Jeremy, 138–39Caledonian Railway, 34, 54, 58Callaghan, Bill, 161

Cambridge, 176, 184Camden, 65, 74, 171Camden-Holyhead, 74Cameron, David, 128Canada, 29, 68Cannon Street, 63, 70Cannon Street and London Bridge stations, 62Cannon Street-Gravesend EMU, 86Cape, 41Captain Sir Henry Whatley Tyler KCB Chief Inspecting, 28Captain Tyler, 32, 34Capt Laffan, 32Capt Melhuish, 21Capt Simmons, 24, 26Cardiff, 149–50Cardwell Committee, 33Carlisle, 34–35, 44, 48, 51, 54, 62, 70, 89, 153Carlisle Assizes, 72Carlisle Canal, 6, 70Carlisle Citadel, 166Carlisle power signal box, 177Carnforth, 35, 180Castleford, 21central door locking (CDL), 144, 168, 173Central Line, 171Chair of ORR, 163Chamberlain, Joseph, 35–36Chancery Lane, 171Chandos, 35Channel Tunnel, 100, 131Channel Tunnel Rail Link, 136Channel Tunnel Safety Authority, 100, 172Channon, Paul, 113Chapman, 65Charfield, 62–64, 66Charfield accident, 66Charfield Church, 65Charfield collision, 65Charfield’s Down, 65Charing Cross, 100Chatham, 20Cheltenham, 152Chertsey, 89Cheshire, 145Chester Cup Race, 32–33Chester-Liverpool, 46Chester station, 32Chief Executive Iain Coucher, 175

Chief Inspecting Officer, 27, 29, 39, 54, 66, 68, 86–87, 93, 95, 100, 103, 113, 118Chief Inspector, 12–13, 132, 139–40, 173, 176, 182, 184Chief Inspector Alan Osborne, 9Chief Inspector Carolyn Griffiths, 169Chief Inspector Ian Prosser CBE, 13Chief Inspector of Agriculture, 167Chief Inspector of Railways, 5, 29, 147, 167Chief Inspector Robin Seymour, 131Chief Inspector Stan Robertson, 140Chiltern, 119, 147Chiltern Railways, 158Cholsey & Moulsford, 40Chorleywood, 125City, 82, 85–86, 90, 101Civil Aviation Authority, 152–53, 163Civil Governor, 28Clapham, 9, 116, 132, 136, 140, 144Clapham collisions, 131Clapham Inquiry, 130Clapham Junction, 118–19, 123, 128Clapham Public Inquiry findings, 128Clapham rail crash of December, 155class, six-car, 136Claughton, 66Claydon, Geoffrey, 143clear signals, 74, 100, 114–15, 130, 161Clive Nicholls, 2, 32, 184Clive Nicholls/HMRI-ORR, 13, 19coal, 16, 32, 36, 38, 50–51, 60, 88, 144, 169coal train, 74, 163Colchester, 95Coldstream Guardsman, 70Coleman, Vic, 12, 140, 147Col Ian McNaughton, 105Collett, 5Colne, 32Colonel Johnny Schute OBE, 181Colonel Mount, 69, 74Colonel Pringle, 7, 44Colonel Rich, 29, 41Colonel Sir Francis Marindin, 12Colonel Sir John Pringle, 12Colonel Sir John Wallace Pringle CB Chief Inspecting, 39Colonel Yolland, 29Colonel Yorke, 47Col Pringle, 48Col Reed, 96–97Col Rich, 39

Col Robertson, 98, 100, 103–4, 111Col Sir Francis Marindin, 39Col Sir Frederick Smith, 21Col Sir John Pringle, 49, 53, 62, 64–65Col Thomson, 21Col Townsend-Rose, 109Col Trench, 83, 86–87Colwich, 110, 124Colwich accident, 110Col Wilson, 68Col Yolland, 29, 33–36Commander Charles Graeme, 60Commons Transport Committee, 161Commonwealth Games, 166companies, foot-dragging railway, 28, 36concentration, driver’s, 103, 147Connaught, 87–88Continental level crossings, 93Continental railways, 93, 113continuously welded rails (CWR), 91contractors, 124, 135–37, 156, 170Cooksey, Alan, 118Corporate Operations Tom Taylor, 184Corps of Royal Engineers, 10, 13, 20, 27, 87, 118County Durtham’s Living Museum, 16Cowans Sheldon, 91Cowden, 9, 132–33, 135, 139, 174Cowden wreckage, 134crane operator Roy Kennett, 180crew, 78, 88–89, 127, 170, 172–74Crewe, 43, 50, 79, 84, 91Crewe Bank, 50Cross Country, 176crossing fatalities, 125crossing keepers, 91crossing safety, 125, 178Cross-Leeds train, 157Crossrail, 123, 131Cross Tube station, 144Crow, Bob, 163Croydon, 16, 134, 182–84Croydon network, 182Croydon tram derailment, 124the Crystal Palace Exhibition, 29CSR (Cab Secure Radio), 133–34Cullen, Lord, 148–49, 155–56, 161, 168Cullen Inquiry, 143Cullen post-Ladbroke Grove recommendation, 156

Cullen recommendation, 167Cullen report, 156, 169Cullen/Uff, joint, 168Cumbria, 170CWR (continuously welded rails), 91Cyprus, 3, 96CzechRepublic, 180

DDaguerre, Louis, 16Dalyell., Tam MP, 137Dam Dykes, 130danger signal, red, 140, 173Darlington, 16, 26, 44Dawlish, approaching, 126DBSO (Driving Brake Second Open), 110–11Delhi Durbar light railway system, 53Deltic, 103Denmark, 180Deputy Chief Inspector, 124, 179Deputy Chief Inspector Alan Cooksey, 118–19Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott, 129, 149, 152Derby, 103, 131Devonshire Royal Commission, 33Dickens, Charles, 29Dickinson, Claire, 180Didcot, 40, 89, 98diesel multiple units. See DMUsDinwoodie, 62Ditton, 46–47, 63Ditton Junction, 46, 72DMUs (diesel multiple units), 102, 107, 112–13Docker Viaduct, 83, 170Docklands Light Railway, 131Dolphin Junction, 79Doncaster, 99, 103, 125, 163, 169, 173Doncaster station, 4DRA (Driver Reminder Appliance), 139Driver Alfred Hill, 61Driver Allan, 109Driver Barton, 132Driver Bunney, 148Driver Byers, 104Driver Eccles, 145Driver George Tempest, 5Driver Harrison, 145, 147, 149–50Driver James Tunnock, 150Driver John Rolls, 116

Driver Larry Harrison, 145–46, 150Driver Masson, 108Driver McClymont, 116Driver Michael Hodder, 153Driver Morgan, 121Driver Rees, 134Driver Rolls, 116–17Drivers Cooper and Hodder, 151Driver’s Safety Device (DSD), 107Driver Stubbs, 83Driver Swaby, 79–80Driver Tunnock, 150driver vigilance, 6–7, 113, 123, 168Driver Walton, 106Driving Brake Second Open. See DBSODriving Van Trailer. See DVTDubai, 126Dubai and Hong Kong rail operator MTRC, 122Duchess, 83, 90Dunblane Primary School, 148Dundee, 27–28, 30, 35, 73, 138Dunkirk, 68DVT (Driving Van Trailer), 145, 153, 157, 163–65

EEast Coast Main Line. See ECMLEast Croydon, 106Eastern Counties Railway, 21Eastern Region, 105, 107East Grinstead, 178East Lancs Railway, 25Ebbw Vale, 129Eccles, 7, 113, 119, 123, 147, 168ECML (East Coast Main Line), 4, 7, 44, 59, 95–96, 101, 103, 138, 153, 158, 163–64,

169ECS train, 65, 116–17Edinburgh, 24, 30, 35, 44, 50, 72–73, 83, 110Edinburgh-Berwick, 74Edinburgh train, 73–74Edinburgh Waverley, 109Editor’s Introduction, 2, 4–5, 7, 9Egypt, 100Egyptian Government, 87electric multiple-unit. See EMUElgin, 105, 107–8, 119Elgin station, 107Elsenham, 9, 176, 178Elsenham level, 176

Elton Collection/Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust, 23EMU (electric multiple-unit), 86, 100, 107, 116, 124, 136English Channel Tunnel Commission, 29English Welsh & Scottish Railway, 145, 148English Welsh & Scottish Railway Class, 143–44Erie Railway, 29Essex, 161ETCS (European Train Control System), 126, 136, 168Euphrates Valley Railway, 29Eur Ing David Keay, 2, 184European Rail Agency, 126, 175European railways, 110, 180European Railway Safety Directive, 169European Train Control System. See ETCSEurostar, 124, 151Eurostar’s North Pole, 152Euston, 9, 34, 49, 54, 62, 65–66, 72, 79, 82, 84–87, 93, 105, 110–11, 166, 170, 175Euston-Inverness, 77Euston milk train, 74Euston Sleeper, 82Euston-Wolverhampton, 65Eves, David, 123EWS freight, 145Exeter, 40explosion, 19, 56, 91 horrific Piper Alpha North Sea oil platform, 155

Ffacing points, 29, 33–34, 37, 50, 82, 89, 95–97, 140, 156, 170, 177–78Farnborough, 83Farringdon, 33Fay’s brake, 33, 35Fennell, 115, 131Fennell Report, 171Festiniog Railway, 29FGW Driver Brian Cooper, 152Finland, 180Fireman Armstong, 66First Great Western, 148First World War, 38, 50, 68, 74Fishergate bridge, 41fixed signals, 7, 14, 21, 24–25, 37Fletcher, Edward, 26Flying Scotsman, 85, 175fog, 15, 24, 34–35, 44, 48, 54, 66, 70, 74, 79, 82–83, 90 thick, 132fog signalmen, 44, 82former Deputy Chief Inspector Alan Cooksey, 163

former HMRI Assistant Chief Inspector Gerald Kerr, 184former HMRI Principal Inspector Stephen Firth, 184former HMRI/RAIB rail accident investigator Chris Hall, 184France, 38, 53, 68, 74, 87, 95–96, 180France, Robert, 179–80freight driver Bricker, 147Freightliner, 105freight train derailments, 91, 99French Railways, 93Frodsham, 32–33Frodsham station master, 32Furness, 26

GGaisgill, 26Garsdale, 5Gary Hart’s Land Rover, 164Gateshead, 34Gavin, Lorraine, 184General Sir Alexander Campbell, 39Germany, 38, 51, 96, 100, 179–80Gibbens QC, 111Gillespie, John, 180Gladstone, William, 36Glanrhyd, 119Glasgow, 16, 24, 54, 56, 72–73, 82, 84–86, 90, 95, 110–11, 126, 130, 143, 153, 166,

170, 173, 175, 182Glasgow & South Western, 51Glasgow Central, 107, 136Glasgow Queen Street, 115Glasgow’s Cowlairs Works, 28Glasgow Springburn, 115Gloucester Assizes, 65Gloucestershire, 28GNER (Great North Eastern Railway), 121, 138, 163–65GNER Driver John Weddle, 164Goswick, 95–97Goswick station, 95Government, 9–10, 13, 19, 22, 36, 51, 93, 117, 124, 161, 171Grand Junction, 19Grand Trunk Railway of Canada, 29Grantham, 43, 45, 50Grantham South and Grantham, 50Grayrigg, 9, 29, 82, 121, 125, 163, 166–67, 170–71, 174, 177–78, 182, 184Great Bridgeford, 81–82Great Central Railways, 4, 175, 179Great North Eastern Railway. See GNERGreat War, 38, 48, 51, 85

Great Western. See GWRGreat Western Managing Director Mark Hopwood, 184Great Western Railway, 6, 20, 24, 35, 41, 79, 140Great Western Trains. See GWTGreat Yarmouth, 29Greece, 29, 180Green, Barton, 143Gresley, 68, 99, 175Gretna Green, 51Gretna Junction, 54, 153Grisedale Crossing, 44Grove Park, 100guard, 6, 9–10, 24–25, 32, 35–36, 43, 48, 50, 53, 58, 62–63, 66, 83, 85–86, 91, 106,

108, 112, 115–16, 119, 130, 136, 139Guardian, 154, 156GWR (Great Western), 7, 9, 19, 24–25, 34, 36, 49–51, 53, 62, 65–66, 70, 74, 79, 83,

85, 91, 105, 107, 128–29, 140GWT (Great Western Trains), 140, 145, 147–48, 150

HHackworth, Timothy, 144Hall, Stan, 184Hammersmith, 171Hampshire, 3, 68, 179Hardwicke, 39Harness, 24Harringay, 68Harris, Nigel, 2, 4, 9, 16, 30, 155–56, 158, 165, 184Harrison, Larry, 147, 149–50Harrow, 3, 7, 34, 68, 92–95, 113Harrow & Wealdstone, 5, 13, 15, 45, 48, 81, 90–92, 94–95, 113Harrow & Wealdstone station, 90Harrow collision, initial, 68Harrow disaster, 95Hart’s Land Rover, 164Harwich, 29Haslemere, 116Haslemere train, 116Hastings, 100Hatfield, 45, 83, 129, 135, 138, 140, 143–44, 153–54, 157, 159, 165–68, 171, 174,

184Hawes, 48Hawes Inspector, 49Hawes Junction, 5, 7, 13, 44–46, 49, 51, 63–64, 84Haworth station, 5Hayes, 150Haymarket, 109Health & Safety Executive, 9, 118, 123, 128, 144

Health & Safety Laboratories, 131Heathrow Express, 148Helensburgh-Airdrie suburban, 115Hemel Hempstead, 14Henderson, Roger, 149Henley branch, 50, 107Herne Hill, 83Hertfordshire, 14, 153Hertfordshire Police, 157Hever, 132Heyford, 88Hidden, Anthony, 117Highland Express, 49High Speed Train. See HSTHitachi’s Japanese-built Class, 167Hither Green, 99Hixon, 9, 93Hixon Inquiry, 111Hixon level, 111, 118HM Assistant Chief Inspector Anna O’Connor, 184HMRI (Her Majesty’s Railway Inspectorate), 2–10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24, 26, 28,

30, 32, 34, 36, 38, 40, 42, 44–46, 48, 50, 52, 54, 56, 58, 60, 62, 64, 66, 68, 70, 72, 74, 76, 78, 80, 82, 84, 86, 88, 90, 92, 94, 96, 98, 100, 102, 104, 106, 108, 110, 112, 114, 116, 118, 120, 122–32, 134, 136, 138–40, 142–50, 152–54, 156, 158, 160–64, 166–76, 178, 180–82, 184

HMRI Chief Inspector Stan Robertson, 139HMRI Inspector Simon Smith, 184HMRI/ORR, 56–57, 95–97, 100–101, 106–7, 112, 115, 118–19, 121, 130–31, 133–

37, 141, 160–64, 166–67, 169, 171, 173, 175, 177–79, 181–83HMRI Principal Inspector Ian Raxton, 184Hodder, 151–52, 154Hodder, Michael, 105, 140Holland, 96Holyhead freight train, 74Hong Kong, 126Hong Kong rail operator MTRC, 122Horsham train, 118–19, 121Howden, 21H.Rich, 12H.Robertson, 12HS1, 51HS2, 123HSE (Health and Safety Executive), 9, 123, 126, 128–32, 135, 137–40, 144, 147, 149,

152–53, 156, 158–59, 161, 163, 167–68, 175, 181HST (High Speed Train), 102, 118, 122, 140, 145, 147–52, 154, 169Hughes, Tina, 176, 178Hull & Selby Railway, 6, 21Hutchinson, Charles, 29

IIECC (Integrated Electronic Control Centres), 126IMCs (Infrastructure Maintenance Companies), 137, 171Immingham-Ferrybridge coal train, 163Improvement Notices, 140, 149, 171Indian Railway Board, 53Inebriated passengers, 21inspectors, non-railway, 152–53Integrated Electronic Control Centres (IECC), 126Ireland, 13, 25, 33, 180Isambard Kingdom Brunel, 19–20

JJarvis, 156

KKeep Tower, 102Keighley & Worth Valley Railway, 178Kendal, 170Kennett, 180Kent, 180Kilpatrick, 111King, 4, 35, 44, 50, 83, 89, 99, 101–4, 106, 108, 110–12, 115, 124–25, 130–31, 144,

157–58, 161–63King Coal, 103Kings Cross, 64, 124Kirkby Stephen, 49Kirkpatrick, 54–55Kirkpatrick signalman, 55Kleboe, Raymond, 92, 94Knighthood, 29, 53Korea, 100Kuwait, 100

LLabour Government, 7, 85, 129 post-war, 128Labour Secretary, 9, 176Ladbroke Grove, 9, 13, 45–46, 48, 80, 105, 129, 139–40, 143–45, 148–49, 152–54,

166, 169, 181Ladbroke Grove crash, 155Ladybank, 28Lake District, 82Lakeside & Haverthwaite, 4Lambrigg, 82–83, 170, 175–77Lambrigg signalbox, 82

Lamington SCR, 105Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway, 7, 59Lancaster, 35, 176Land Rover, 164Langley, 5, 12, 87, 95Langley, Brig C.M., 96Langworth, 105Laos border, 100Largs, 136late George Heiron, 85Latvia, 180Lawrence Hill station, 143Leeds, 16, 21, 178Leeds-Bristol, 63Leeds Holbeck Motive Power Depot, 89Leeds tramway, 143Leicester, 86Leighton Buzzard, 6, 70, 72–73, 81Leominster, 9letter, resignation, 156level crossings, 9, 22, 37, 41, 44, 62, 93, 113, 125, 132, 172, 175, 178, 181 automation of, 91, 96, 113 public, 91, 111, 113lever collars, 7, 41, 54–55, 59 use of, 54–55Lewes, 178Lewisham, 33, 70, 93Lewisham accident, 95Lewisham Inquiry, 95Lewisham St Johns, 91Libya, 100Lichfield LMR, 105Lieut Colonel Weiderman USAF, 95Lieutenant Colonel Yorke, 49Light Rail Safety & Standard Board, 182Lime Street, 136Lincoln, 50, 105Lincolnshire, 9Lintorn, 12Lithuania, 180Littlehampton, 107Littlehampton train, 119, 121 eight-coach, 121Littlehampton-Victoria, 118Liverpool, 19, 25, 34, 53, 87, 90, 110, 113–14, 136Liverpool & Manchester Railway, 10, 19, 33, 36, 144Liverpool Overhead Railway, 49Liverpool-Scarborough passenger train, 168

Liverpool Street, 79, 82Liverpool train, 65, 110, 114Llanbryde, 107LMS, 6, 20, 22, 38, 51, 53, 61, 66, 68, 75, 77, 79, 82, 128–29, 166LMS Stanier Class, 3LNER, 51, 53, 66, 68, 72–73, 83, 128–29LNWR, 34–35, 43, 49–50, 53, 56, 77locking, proper, 33Lockington accident, 113Locomotive Act, 29London & Birmingham Railway, 24London & North Eastern Railways, 51, 85London & North Western Railway, 9, 33, 46London & Southampton, 19London & South Western Railway, 24, 45London Bridge, 76, 106London Brighton & South Coast Railway, 33London Midland & Scottish, 51, 85, 128London Midland & Scottish Railway, 10, 20London Underground (LU), 58, 105, 115, 124–25, 171, 176London Victoria, 83, 107Longmoor, 3, 95Longmoor Military Railway, 3, 68, 87Longport, 69Longwood & Milnsbridge, 127Lord Advocate, 74Lord Althorp, 19Lord Ashby, 19Lord Cullen, 140, 148, 155–56Louise Christian, 154lreland, 35–36L-shaped configuration, 152Lt-Col Addison, 39Lt-Col Druitt, 53, 58Lt-Col Hutchinson, 34Lt Col McNaughton, 98, 113Lt Col Mount, 67, 70, 72, 74Lt-Col Mount, 62, 66Lt-Col Pringle, 59Lt-Col Rich, 34Lt Col Sir Alan Mount, 74, 82, 86, 96, 103Lt Col Townsend-Rose, 113Lt Col Wilson, 70, 86, 91, 93, 95–96Lt-Col Wilson, 83, 87Lt Col Woodhouse, 87Lt-Col Woodhouse, 83Lt-Col Yorke, 50Lt Galton, 26

Lt-Gen Sir Charles Pasley, 29Lt Henry Tyler, 27Ludlow, 91LU infrastructure, 171LU’s Hainault depot, 125Luxembourg, 180Lymington branch, 128Lytham, 59, 63

MMacedonia, 68Maidstone, 180mail train, 28, 43, 137Maj-Gen Hutchinson, 35–36, 39Major General Charles Scrope Hutchinson , 29Major King, 108, 112management issues, 117Manchester, 4, 9, 19, 34–35, 49, 61, 91, 93, 105, 110, 113–14, 123, 143, 166, 182Manchester & Leeds Midland Counties North Midland South, 19Manchester Metrolink, 143Manchester Piccadilly, 9, 166Manchester Sheffield & Lincolnshire Railway, 34Manchester train, 110, 114Marylebone, 49Masson, Margaret, 163Maudland, 41Mayor Ken Livingston, 171McMullen, 12, 87, 89McNulty Report, 170Meakin, George, 55Metropolitan Railway, 59Middle East, 87, 96Middleton, 16, 178Middleton Railway, 178Midland Railway, 35, 38, 89Midland Railway Company, 35Milton, 89, 91Mont Cenis Railway, 33Moorcock Tunnel, 44Moorgate, 105Moorgate disaster, 105Morecambe, 180Morpeth, 35, 50, 103–4, 110–11Morpeth derailment, 111, 130Morpeth driver, 7Morpeth station, 7, 109, 111, 130Morrison, Gavin, 102–3, 122–26, 128–29, 144, 166–69Motorman Newson, 105

Motspur Park, 83MR General Superintendent Sir Cecil Walter Paget, 48multiple collisions, fatal, 144

NNash Mills box, 74National Rail Awards in September, 183National Rail Conference, 161National Railway Museum Collection, 23National Railway Museum’s Bob Gwynne, 184National Railway Musuem, 175Naworth, 62Network Rail, 123, 125–26, 129, 167–68, 170–72, 175, 178–79, 181Nevis, Nigel, 184New Addington, 183Newark, 35Newcastle, 59, 62, 102–3, 126Newcastle & Carlisle Railway, 24Newcastle Central, 86Newcastle station stop, 104Newfield Pottery, 61New rolling TV news broadcasts, 136Newton, 130North Acton, 63North Eastern Railway, 26, 34North Pole, 148, 151North Sea, 148North Staffordshire, 35North Staffordshire Railway, 35, 69Northumberland, 70Northumbrian, 21North Wales, 180North Western Railway, 53North Yorkshire Moors, 179Norton Fitzwarren, 41Norway, 95Norwich, 82Norwich-Yarmouth, 24Nottingham, 35, 85NR Chief Executive Sir David Higgins, 178NR Commercial Director Richard Middleton, 129Nuneaton, 111

OOffice of Rail Regulation. See ORROfficer of Railways, 124Oldham, 56Old Oak Common, 63, 150

Olver, Maj Peter M., 96ORR (Office of Rail Regulation), 2, 9–10, 19, 114, 123–24, 130, 136, 163, 167, 171–

72, 175–76, 179–84ORR Development & Competency Manager Lee Collins, 184ORR Senior Executive Paul Wilkinson, 184Osborne, Alan, 12, 156, 161, 163, 166Osborne’s resignation, 156, 167Oxenholme, 176Oxley Sidings, 62Oxted, 133–34Oxted-Uckfield, 132

PPacific, 4, 15, 85, 87, 89–91, 95Paddington, 24, 40–41, 50, 89, 105, 122, 145–47, 150–52Paddington crash, 154Paddington-South Wales, 85Paddington station, 148Paddington throat, 156Paignton, 105, 126Pakistan Western Railways, 95Palestine, 100paramedics, 95, 172Pasley, Sir Charles W., 12Peak District, 61, 144Peak Forest, 144Pelham, 39Pendolino, 75, 121, 170, 177Pendolino disaster, 170Pendolino trains, 166, 173Penkridge, 184Pennines, 26, 89Penrith, 176Penzance, 40, 91Periodic Review, 179, 181Perth, 82, 90Peterborough, 2, 99, 184Peterborough signalman, 99Petteril Bridge Junction, 35Plamor, 164Plymouth, 41, 50Plymouth-Paddington passenger train, 79Poland, 180Polar Star, 89Polesworth, 6–7, 15, 86Polesworth derailment, 87police, 9, 29, 95, 112, 148Pollington Road, 163–64

Polmont, 24, 110–11, 119Poole, 116Poole train, 116–17Portsmouth, 16Portugal, 180Post Office, 43, 50, 66, 106Potters Bar, 9, 29, 82–83, 156, 160–62, 166, 168, 170Potters Bar crash, 162Potters Bar station, 156Poyntz, Major John D., 3Preston, 25, 41, 45, 59, 173Preston station, 41, 49Prime Minister John Major, 128Princes Risborough, 49Princess Anne, 90Princess Arthur, 87–88Principal Inspector, 140Principal Inspector Caroline Wake OBE, 172Principal Railway Employment Inspector, 115, 118Pringle, John, 39Pringle Committee, 41Prosser, Ian, 6, 12–13, 124, 171–72, 177–78, 181, 184PSB (power signal box), 103, 162, 177Pullman, 64Purley, 9, 118–19, 121, 139, 174Purley accident, 107, 110

QQueensferry, 137Quintinshill, 13, 51–55, 58, 68Quintinshill catastrophe, 55Quintinshill disaster, 54

RRAIB (Rail Accident Investigation Branch), 118, 167, 169–71, 177, 182–84RAIB’s Grayrigg report, 170Rail Accident Investigation Branch. See RAIBRail Express Systems (RES), 139RAIL magazine, 129, 140, 147, 156, 161, 167, 176RAIL magazine graphic, 153RAIL Managing Editor Nigel Harris, 137, 156Rail Regulator Tom Winsor, 135–36, 143, 155Rail Review White Paper, 163RAIL’s campaigning, 156Railtrack, 123, 128, 131–32, 135–40, 143, 145, 147–50, 152–56, 167–68Railtrack and maintenance contractor Balfour Beatty, 153Railtrack Board, 155Railtrack’s appeal, 149

Railtrack Scotland Director Janette Anderson, 153Railway Accidents Simon French, 184Railway Commission, 10Railway Detectives, 184Railway Electrification Committee, 39Railway Employment Inspectors, 118, 130Railway Executive, 53, 68, 84, 87Railway Executive Committee, 78railway historian/writer Chris Leigh, 184Railway Regulation Act, 22railways preserved, 178 privatised, 136, 166Railways Act, 20, 22, 25, 33–34, 36–38, 51, 93, 113, 124, 128, 144, 163 post-1993, 13Railway Safety & Standards Board, 161Railway Safety Directorate (RSD), 181Railway Safety Regulations, 22, 152, 163, 168Railways Archive, 5, 9, 184Railways Stan Hart, 184Railway Training Centre, 95Rainhill, 19, 28Ramsbottom, 56Ramsgate steam, 70RCF (rolling contact fatigue), 132, 153recommendations, 20–22, 25, 44, 50, 69, 79, 86, 93, 113, 117, 119, 131, 153, 155,

169–70Reed, Col W.P., 87, 93, 96, 100Restructuring HMRI, 172Retford, 59Retired Railway Inspector Major John Poyntz, 184Rhine, 96, 179Rhodes, 66Ribblehead Viaduct, 29Riddles, Robert, 175RIDDOR accidents, 176RI Goswick report, 97RI investigations, 46, 54, 108RI’s Captain Henry Tyler, 130River Anker, 33River Cray, 63RMT Union, 136Robertson, John, 95Robertson, Stan, 131Rocket, 19–21rolling contact fatigue (RCF), 132, 153Rolt, 5, 32, 44Romania, 29, 180

Rothery, 36Royal Academy, 148Royal Artilleryman, 14, 79, 82Royal Commission, 35Royal Commission report, 33Royal Engineers, former, 158Royal Highlander, 62Royal Mail, 137, 143Royal Military Academy, 28–29, 39Royal Northumberland Fusiliers, 103Royal Scot, 14, 55, 70, 77, 79–80, 88–89Royal Scot Class, 82, 87Rt Hon David Lloyd George, 50Rt Hon Sally Oppenheim, 113Ryde Pier Head station, 168Ryton, 24

Ssafety management, 3, 10, 12–13, 20, 22, 27–29, 39, 53, 68, 87, 95–96, 100, 118, 125,

140, 153, 167, 172, 175, 184Salisbury, 43, 50Salmon, Burton, 21Saltley, 103Sandilands, 124, 182Schute, Col Johnny OBE, 181Scotland, 25, 122, 130, 135, 137–38Scotrail train, 135Scout Green, 179Secondman Graham, 104Second World War, 53–54, 74, 85Seer Green, 119Sefton, Alan, 167Sefton, Allan, 12Selby, 163Serious accidents in tunnels, 33Settle Junction, 35Sevenoaks, 63, 67Severn Tunnel, 29Severn Valley, 179Seymour, Robin, 123Seymour, Robin J., 12, 118Shaftesbury, 19Shap, 179Shark, 41, 49Sheffield, 24, 143Sheffield’s suburban streets, 143Sherratt, Alan, 145Shields Junction, 107

Shildon, 16Shire Class, 70Shooter, Adrian, 158Shoreham air, 49Shrewsbury, 43, 45, 50signalbox, 7, 36, 41, 44, 50, 54–55, 59, 62, 65–66, 73, 82, 94, 96, 177 adjacent, 36signalling, 29, 33–36, 82, 87, 91, 96, 103, 106, 115, 119, 139–40, 148, 152, 181signalling errors, 7, 51signalman, 7, 9, 29, 32–33, 35–36, 41, 44, 50, 54–55, 58–59, 62–63, 65, 68–70, 72–

74, 79–80, 82–84, 87–89, 91, 93–94, 116, 127, 150Signalman’s error, 119signalmen, 4, 7, 24, 41, 44, 52–55, 58, 70, 74, 79, 83, 91, 100, 104Signals Passed at Danger. See SPADsSilk Mill, 41Simmons, 12Simon, 184Simpson, 66Singapore, 126Sir Alan Mount, 82–83, 87, 93Sir Charles Pasley FRS, 22Sir David Davies, 148Sir Francis Marindin, 39Sir Frederic Smith, 20–22Sir John Cullen, 122–23Sir John Pringle’s service, 39Sir John Uff’s Public Inquiry Report, 146Sir Thomas Bouch, 26Slough, 24, 79Slovakia, 180Slovenia, 180Smith, Frederic, 12, 20Smith’s vacuum, 35Somerton WR, 105Sonning Cutting, 22Southall, 9, 118, 129, 140, 143–45, 147–48, 150, 154, 156, 166, 174Southall accident, 147Southall collision, 140, 147–48Southall HST, 147Southall Inquiry, 148South Croydon, 83South Croydon Junction, 83South Devon, 40South East Asia, 87, 95South Eastern Railway, 24, 33South Eastern Railway Folkstone-London, 29Southern Railway, 11, 83, 100Southern Railway Drummond Class M7, 62

Southern Region, 86, 89, 99, 107South Korea, 126South Milford Junction, 21Southport Chapel Street, 7South Ruislip, 95South Shields, 59South signalbox, 50South Western Railway, 34South West Trains, 128South Wingfield, 21SPADs (Signals Passed at Danger), 9, 72, 110, 133, 136, 139–40, 148–49, 156, 168,

181Spain, 180Spath, 93SR Bulleid, 173Stafford, 74, 137–38Staffordshire, 61, 93Stainmore, 26Stanier, 15, 53, 77, 88, 90Stanier Class, 79, 90Stan S.J.Robertson, 12Staplehurst, 29St Bede’s junction NER, 59Steam World, 2, 184Steam World Magazine, 2Steam World Publishing, 2, 184Stephenson, George, 4–5, 16, 19, 22, 144, 183Steventon, 98St George, 39St Johns, 70St Lucia, 28St Michael, 39St Neots, 64St Nicholas Crossing, 34Stockton & Darlington, 16Stockton & Darlington Railway, 4–5, 10, 16, 26, 144Stoke, 61, 110Stoke Gifford, 85Stoke-on-Trent, 35Stonehouse Pool, 50stop signals, red, 131, 145Stowe Tunnel, 88St Pancras, 35, 87St Pancras International, 167Strategic Rail Authority, 153, 166, 168Streak, 85Sudan Railways, 39suicide by train, 105

Sunderland, 34sunflower, 15, 153Super Voyager trains, 177Surrey Iron Railway, 16Sutton, Alfred, 5Sutton Tunnel, 32–33Swaby, 80Swansea, 140, 146–47Sweden, 126, 180S.Wilson, 12Swindon, 21, 40, 79, 98, 150switch rails, 29, 89, 161, 177Sykes system, 89

TTalyllyn, 178Tamworth, 33Tangmere, 173Tay, 28, 30, 35Tay Bridge, 5, 26–27, 30, 32, 35, 73, 82, 93, 118, 138Taylor’s Junction, 21Tebay, 26, 179–80Tewkesbury, 67Thailand, 100Thames, 33Thames Clyde Express, 89Thames-Clyde Express Glasgow, 87Thames Trains, 105, 148, 152Thames Turbo Class, 153The1896 Prestonaccident, 42Thirsk, 44Thomas Wheatley North British Railway, 39Thompson, Charlotte, 9, 161Tindall, Gary, 180Tinsley, 55Titfield Thunderbolt, 22Toton, 169Toton-Willesden coal train, 75Tower, 181TPWS (Train Protection Warning System), 6, 83, 107, 136, 139–40, 152, 168–69, 173track worker fatalities, 132Trade Tay Bridge Disaster Inquiry, 138Train Data Recorders and train protection, 138Train Operating Unit (TOU), 133, 145train protection, automatic, 7, 48, 62, 110, 129, 136, 168train protection systems, 138, 168Train Protection Warning System. See TPWStrain register book (TRB), 55

tram, 13, 172, 182–83Transport & Works Act, 131Travelling Post Office, 138Trent, 103Tring, 69–70Troubled Years, 2, 51, 53, 55, 57, 59, 61, 63, 65, 67Tudor, Owen, 91, 101Tunnock, 150Tunstall, 61Tyler, 28–29, 33–35 Henry, 28Tyler’s Curve, 29Tyne, 102

UUckfield, 132Uckfield branch, 133Uff, 145, 147, 149–50, 168Uganda Railway, 39UK Railway Advisory Service, 95USAF, 95Uttoxeter, 93

VVauxhall, 45Vauxhall collision, 45Vietnam war, 100Virgin, 166Virgin Driver Roy Eccles, 147Virgin West Coast Class, 170von Donop, Majopr General Sir Stanley, 39Vulcan, 41, 49

WWAGN (West Anglia Great Northern), 160Wales, 25, 180Walker, Timothy, 161Walmsley, Fred, 96Wandsworth, 16war, 38, 48, 50–51, 59, 74, 78–79, 87, 156Warren, Pam, 181Warrington, 138Waterloo, 45, 50, 116, 124Waterloo Area Re-signalling System (WARS), 117Waters, Chris, 180Watford Junction station, 116Watford Tunnel, 82, 98Watt, James, 16

Waverley, 95, 109Weedon, 87Weedon derailment of September, 88Welham, 159Welham Curve, 153, 157Welsh Guardsman, 89Welwyn, 101Welwyn Control, 79, 86Welwyn control system, 89Welwyn Garden City, 79, 89Welwyn North, 91Wembley, 107–8, 119Wembley accident, 108Wembley Central, 119Wembley collision, 107Wemyss Bay, 107Wendover, 49Wennington, 35West Coast, 35, 41, 49, 87, 172–73West Coast Main Line, 2, 9, 15, 26, 48–49, 51, 62, 70, 74, 79, 84, 87, 90, 93, 145,

166, 175, 179West Coast Railway Company, 173West Coast Railways, 173Western Region, 89, 98West Germany, 3West Hampstead, 75–76Westinghouse, 34Westwood Junction, 99West Yorkshire Regiment, 77Whigham, Walter K., 85Whitchurch, 43White Star, 60Wickwar, 62–63Widnes, 46Wigan, 136Willesden, 138Williams, Linda, 12, 167Williams Review, 36, 129Wilson, Bob, 68Wilson, George, 68Windsor, 89Windward Islands, 90Winsford, 84, 145, 147Winsford Junction, 84–85Winsford South Junction, 145Winsford Station, 84, 86Wiske Moor, 44Witham, 161

Wolverhampton, 62Wolverhampton train, 65Woodhouse, 68Woodlesford, 21Woolwich, 29Woolwich Arsenal, 86Woolwich Dockyard station on receipt, 86Wootton Bassett, 25, 173Wootton Bassett Junction, protecting, 173Worthing, 121Worth Valley Railway, 5Wrawby, 119Wrawby Junction, 123W.Tyler, 12www.railwaysarchive.co.uk, 184Wynn’s crew, 9

YYarmouth, 82Yodalarm, 112Yolland, Col. W., 12, 28–29, 34–35York, 21, 85, 126–27York & North Midland Railway, 21Yorke, 39, 49Yorkshire, 5Yorkshire Steam Railway, 179

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