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A Abbie Sweetwine, 95 Abbots Ripton, 5 Aberdeen, 35, 59, 62, 89, 101, 107, 111, 138 Abu Dhabi, 122, 126 accident inquiries, 33, 55, 184 accident investigation, 2–3, 26, 95, 149, 184 accident ratios, 176 accidents mysterious, 50 separate, 24, 34, 62, 73, 75 Acton, 145 Addiscombe-Cannon Street, 100 Advanced Passenger Train, 166 AHBs (automatic half-barrier), 9, 93, 113, 125 Air Accident Investigation Branch, 153 Air Raid Precautions (ARP), 77 Ais Gill, 48–49, 51, 63 Alan Mount, 53 Aldershot-Waterloo, 45 Alistair Darling, 161, 163 Allan, 109 Ambergate, 21 Angel, 95 Anglia Railways Class, 161 Anglo-Scottish , 153 Animals straying, 119 Anmarie Landi, 184 Annual Railway Safety Directorate Staff Conference, 181 Anthony Hidden QC, 118 Anthony Hidden’s recommendation, 130 AOCL (Automatic Open Crossings), 113, 125 Appleton, Paul, 124 Arlington, 95 army, 29, 39, 54, 68, 87, 96, 100, 181 army engineers, 12 former, 184 army officers, 13, 181 army’s railway activities, 13 ARP (Air Raid Precautions), 77 Arthur Yorke KCB Chief, 39 Ashchurch, 66–67 Ashford, 16, 167 Ashton, 15 Ashurst, 132 Ashurst 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, 29 Austria, 180 automatic half-barrier. See AHBs automatic hydraulic brakes, 180 Automatic Route Setting (ARS), 126, 146 Automatic Train Operation (ATO), 126 Automatic Train Protection. See ATP Automatic Warning System. See AWS AWS (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, 168 Aylesbury, 49–50 Ayr, 107 Ayrshire coast, 136

B Baker Street station, 59 Balby Bridge, 4 Baldock, 89, 101 Barlow, 36 Barlow train, 35 Barnard Castle, 26 Barnes, 89 Barnes East, 89 Barnes Junction, 89 Barnetby, 123 Barnsley, 24, 34 Barrow, 26 Basingstoke, 116 Basingstoke- Waterloo, 116 Basque country, 68 Bath, 39, 53 Battersea, 89 Battersea Park, 11 Bayswater, 123 Bazlinton, Olivia, 176 Beamish museum, 16 Bedwyn, 151 Beeching, 169 Belah, 26 Belgium, 96, 180 Belle Isle extension, 143 Bellgrove, 115, 119, 130 Bellgrove Fatal Accident Inquiry, 130 Bellgrove station, 115 Bence, 5 Berkeley Road Junction, 62–63 Berlin, 3 Berwick, 95 Bethnal Green, 96 Birkenhead Lancashire & Cheshire Junction Railway, 32 Birkett Tunnel, 48 Birmingham, 35, 82 Birmingham & Gloucester Railway, 21 Black Carr, 103 Black Carr Sidings, 169 Blackfriars section, 33 Blackham Junction, 134 Blackpool, 59, 143 Blackpool’s promenade tramway, 143 Blackwall Railway, 24 Blair, Tony, 128 Blea Moor, 87, 89 Blea Moor Tunnel, 89 Bletchley, 6, 77–78 Block and Brake regulations, 22 Block Regulations, 55 block signalling, electric, 25 block system of signalling, 33–35 Bluebell Railways, 178 Board of Trade, 5, 10, 16, 19–20, 22, 29, 32–36, 39, 44, 50, 53 Board of Trade Requirements, 35 Board of Trade Tay Bridge Disaster Inquiry, 138 Bob, 68 boiler explosions, 32, 34 Bombay-Poona, 87 Border City, 48 Borneo, 3 Bosnia, 29 Bourne End, 6–7, 14, 79–82 Bournemouth train, 124 Bow, 21 box Signalmen Andrews, 65 BR (), 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, 184 Bradford, 83 Bradley, Simon, 184 Bradshaw’s Railway Manual, 9 brake application, 104, 106, 162 automatic, 89, 91 brakes, 2, 6, 21, 25–26, 28–29, 32–37, 41, 50, 69, 74, 82, 86, 106–7, 111, 136, 145, 148 Brampton, 62 Branchton, 135 Brassey & Co, 33 BR Automatic Warning System, 6, 107 BRB (British Railways Board), 108, 130–32, 139 Brent, 89 Brett-Andrews, 135 Bridge of Dun, 34 Bridlington, 113 Brig, 87, 95 Brighton, 83, 106 Brighton & South Coast Railway, 39 Bristol, 25, 62, 143, 148 Bristol Parkway, 143 Britain’s railways, 3, 35, 68, 84, 124, 131, 140, 166, 182 Britannia, 85 Britannia class, 89 British Army, 3, 96, 178–79 British rail movements in Germany, 179 British Rail Research Dynamics Group, 131 British railway capital investment, 25 British Railways Board. See BRB British steel, 38 British Transport Police, 5, 140, 156, 181 British Transport Police Superintendent Alistair Cumming, 180 Broad Street, 74, 92 Brockley Whins, 34 broken rails, 91, 98–100, 105, 107–8, 119, 139–40, 143, 172, 184 BR’s South Central Train Operating Unit, 133 BR’s Southern Region, 106 Buckingham, 35 Buckley, Colin, 180 Bulgaria, 180 Burgess, Darren, 180 Burkhardt’s Wisconsin Central, 139 Burma, 39 Burnisland, 28 Burnley, 25, 126 Bushey, 105 Buxton, 56, 159, 184 Buxton boiler explosion, 57 Byers, 104

C Cab Secure Radio (CSR), 133–34 Caithness, 137 Caldecoat, Jeremy, 138–39 Caledonian Railway, 34, 54, 58 Callaghan, Bill, 161 Cambridge, 176, 184 Camden, 65, 74, 171 Camden-Holyhead, 74 Cameron, David, 128 Canada, 29, 68 Cannon Street, 63, 70 Cannon Street and London Bridge stations, 62 Cannon Street-Gravesend EMU, 86 Cape, 41 Captain Sir Henry Whatley Tyler KCB Chief Inspecting, 28 Captain Tyler, 32, 34 Capt Laffan, 32 Capt Melhuish, 21 Capt Simmons, 24, 26 Cardiff, 149–50 Cardwell Committee, 33 Carlisle, 34–35, 44, 48, 51, 54, 62, 70, 89, 153 Carlisle Assizes, 72 Carlisle Canal, 6, 70 Carlisle Citadel, 166 Carlisle power signal box, 177 Carnforth, 35, 180 Castleford, 21 central door locking (CDL), 144, 168, 173 Central Line, 171 Chair of ORR, 163 Chamberlain, Joseph, 35–36 Chancery Lane, 171 Chandos, 35 Channel Tunnel, 100, 131 Channel Tunnel Rail Link, 136 Channel Tunnel Safety Authority, 100, 172 Channon, Paul, 113 Chapman, 65 Charfield, 62–64, 66 Charfield accident, 66 Charfield Church, 65 Charfield collision, 65 Charfield’s Down, 65 Charing Cross, 100 Chatham, 20 Cheltenham, 152 Chertsey, 89 Cheshire, 145 Chester Cup Race, 32–33 Chester-Liverpool, 46 Chester station, 32 Chief Executive Iain Coucher, 175 Chief Inspecting Officer, 27, 29, 39, 54, 66, 68, 86–87, 93, 95, 100, 103, 113, 118 Chief Inspector, 12–13, 132, 139–40, 173, 176, 182, 184 Chief Inspector Alan Osborne, 9 Chief Inspector Carolyn Griffiths, 169 Chief Inspector Ian Prosser CBE, 13 Chief Inspector of Agriculture, 167 Chief Inspector of Railways, 5, 29, 147, 167 Chief Inspector Robin Seymour, 131 Chief Inspector Stan Robertson, 140 Chiltern, 119, 147 , 158 Cholsey & Moulsford, 40 Chorleywood, 125 City, 82, 85–86, 90, 101 Civil Aviation Authority, 152–53, 163 Civil Governor, 28 Clapham, 9, 116, 132, 136, 140, 144 Clapham collisions, 131 Clapham Inquiry, 130 Clapham Junction, 118–19, 123, 128 Clapham Public Inquiry findings, 128 Clapham rail crash of December, 155 class, six-car, 136 Claughton, 66 Claydon, Geoffrey, 143 clear signals, 74, 100, 114–15, 130, 161 Clive Nicholls, 2, 32, 184 Clive Nicholls/HMRI-ORR, 13, 19 coal, 16, 32, 36, 38, 50–51, 60, 88, 144, 169 coal train, 74, 163 Colchester, 95 Coldstream Guardsman, 70 Coleman, Vic, 12, 140, 147 Col Ian McNaughton, 105 Collett, 5 Colne, 32 Colonel Johnny Schute OBE, 181 Colonel Mount, 69, 74 Colonel Pringle, 7, 44 Colonel Rich, 29, 41 Colonel Sir Francis Marindin, 12 Colonel Sir John Pringle, 12 Colonel Sir John Wallace Pringle CB Chief Inspecting, 39 Colonel Yolland, 29 Colonel Yorke, 47 Col Pringle, 48 Col Reed, 96–97 Col Rich, 39 Col Robertson, 98, 100, 103–4, 111 Col Sir Francis Marindin, 39 Col Sir Frederick Smith, 21 Col Sir John Pringle, 49, 53, 62, 64–65 Col Thomson, 21 Col Townsend-Rose, 109 Col Trench, 83, 86–87 Colwich, 110, 124 Colwich accident, 110 Col Wilson, 68 Col Yolland, 29, 33–36 Commander Charles Graeme, 60 Commons Transport Committee, 161 Commonwealth Games, 166 companies, foot-dragging railway, 28, 36 concentration, driver’s, 103, 147 Connaught, 87–88 Continental level crossings, 93 Continental railways, 93, 113 continuously welded rails (CWR), 91 contractors, 124, 135–37, 156, 170 Cooksey, Alan, 118 Corporate Operations Tom Taylor, 184 Corps of Royal Engineers, 10, 13, 20, 27, 87, 118 County Durtham’s Living Museum, 16 Cowans Sheldon, 91 Cowden, 9, 132–33, 135, 139, 174 Cowden wreckage, 134 crane operator Roy Kennett, 180 crew, 78, 88–89, 127, 170, 172–74 Crewe, 43, 50, 79, 84, 91 Crewe Bank, 50 Cross Country, 176 crossing fatalities, 125 crossing keepers, 91 crossing safety, 125, 178 Cross-Leeds train, 157 , 123, 131 Cross Tube station, 144 Crow, Bob, 163 Croydon, 16, 134, 182–84 Croydon network, 182 Croydon tram derailment, 124 the Crystal Palace Exhibition, 29 CSR (Cab Secure Radio), 133–34 Cullen, Lord, 148–49, 155–56, 161, 168 Cullen Inquiry, 143 Cullen post-Ladbroke Grove recommendation, 156 Cullen recommendation, 167 Cullen report, 156, 169 Cullen/Uff, joint, 168 , 170 CWR (continuously welded rails), 91 Cyprus, 3, 96 CzechRepublic, 180

D Daguerre, Louis, 16 Dalyell., Tam MP, 137 Dam Dykes, 130 danger signal, red, 140, 173 Darlington, 16, 26, 44 Dawlish, approaching, 126 DBSO (Driving Brake Second Open), 110–11 Delhi Durbar light railway system, 53 Deltic, 103 Denmark, 180 Deputy Chief Inspector, 124, 179 Deputy Chief Inspector Alan Cooksey, 118–19 Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott, 129, 149, 152 Derby, 103, 131 Devonshire Royal Commission, 33 Dickens, Charles, 29 Dickinson, Claire, 180 Didcot, 40, 89, 98 diesel multiple units. See DMUs Dinwoodie, 62 Ditton, 46–47, 63 Ditton Junction, 46, 72 DMUs (diesel multiple units), 102, 107, 112–13 Docker Viaduct, 83, 170 , 131 Dolphin Junction, 79 Doncaster, 99, 103, 125, 163, 169, 173 Doncaster station, 4 DRA (Driver Reminder Appliance), 139 Driver Alfred Hill, 61 Driver Allan, 109 Driver Barton, 132 Driver Bunney, 148 Driver Byers, 104 Driver Eccles, 145 Driver George Tempest, 5 Driver Harrison, 145, 147, 149–50 Driver James Tunnock, 150 Driver John Rolls, 116 Driver Larry Harrison, 145–46, 150 Driver Masson, 108 Driver McClymont, 116 Driver Michael Hodder, 153 Driver Morgan, 121 Driver Rees, 134 Driver Rolls, 116–17 Drivers Cooper and Hodder, 151 Driver’s Safety Device (DSD), 107 Driver Stubbs, 83 Driver Swaby, 79–80 Driver Tunnock, 150 driver vigilance, 6–7, 113, 123, 168 Driver Walton, 106 Driving Brake Second Open. See DBSO Driving Van Trailer. See DVT Dubai, 126 Dubai and Hong Kong rail operator MTRC, 122 Duchess, 83, 90 Dunblane Primary School, 148 Dundee, 27–28, 30, 35, 73, 138 Dunkirk, 68 DVT (Driving Van Trailer), 145, 153, 157, 163–65

E East Coast Main Line. See ECML East Croydon, 106 Eastern Counties Railway, 21 Eastern Region, 105, 107 East Grinstead, 178 East Lancs Railway, 25 Ebbw Vale, 129 Eccles, 7, 113, 119, 123, 147, 168 ECML (East Coast Main Line), 4, 7, 44, 59, 95–96, 101, 103, 138, 153, 158, 163–64, 169 ECS train, 65, 116–17 Edinburgh, 24, 30, 35, 44, 50, 72–73, 83, 110 Edinburgh-Berwick, 74 Edinburgh train, 73–74 Edinburgh Waverley, 109 Editor’s Introduction, 2, 4–5, 7, 9 Egypt, 100 Egyptian Government, 87 electric multiple-unit. See EMU Elgin, 105, 107–8, 119 Elgin station, 107 Elsenham, 9, 176, 178 Elsenham level, 176 Elton Collection/Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust, 23 EMU (electric multiple-unit), 86, 100, 107, 116, 124, 136 English Channel Tunnel Commission, 29 English Welsh & Scottish Railway, 145, 148 English Welsh & Scottish Railway Class, 143–44 Erie Railway, 29 Essex, 161 ETCS (European Train Control System), 126, 136, 168 Euphrates Valley Railway, 29 Eur Ing David Keay, 2, 184 European Rail Agency, 126, 175 European railways, 110, 180 European Railway Safety Directive, 169 European Train Control System. See ETCS , 124, 151 Eurostar’s North Pole, 152 Euston, 9, 34, 49, 54, 62, 65–66, 72, 79, 82, 84–87, 93, 105, 110–11, 166, 170, 175 Euston-Inverness, 77 Euston milk train, 74 Euston Sleeper, 82 Euston-Wolverhampton, 65 Eves, David, 123 EWS freight, 145 Exeter, 40 explosion, 19, 56, 91 horrific Piper Alpha North Sea oil platform, 155

F facing points, 29, 33–34, 37, 50, 82, 89, 95–97, 140, 156, 170, 177–78 Farnborough, 83 Farringdon, 33 Fay’s brake, 33, 35 Fennell, 115, 131 Fennell Report, 171 Festiniog Railway, 29 FGW Driver Brian Cooper, 152 Finland, 180 Fireman Armstong, 66 First Great Western, 148 First World War, 38, 50, 68, 74 Fishergate bridge, 41 fixed signals, 7, 14, 21, 24–25, 37 Fletcher, Edward, 26 Flying Scotsman, 85, 175 fog, 15, 24, 34–35, 44, 48, 54, 66, 70, 74, 79, 82–83, 90 thick, 132 fog signalmen, 44, 82 former Deputy Chief Inspector Alan Cooksey, 163 former HMRI Assistant Chief Inspector Gerald Kerr, 184 former HMRI Principal Inspector Stephen Firth, 184 former HMRI/RAIB rail accident investigator Chris Hall, 184 France, 38, 53, 68, 74, 87, 95–96, 180 France, Robert, 179–80 freight driver Bricker, 147 Freightliner, 105 freight train derailments, 91, 99 French Railways, 93 Frodsham, 32–33 Frodsham station master, 32 Furness, 26

G Gaisgill, 26 Garsdale, 5 Gary Hart’s Land Rover, 164 Gateshead, 34 Gavin, Lorraine, 184 General Sir Alexander Campbell, 39 Germany, 38, 51, 96, 100, 179–80 Gibbens QC, 111 Gillespie, John, 180 Gladstone, William, 36 Glanrhyd, 119 Glasgow, 16, 24, 54, 56, 72–73, 82, 84–86, 90, 95, 110–11, 126, 130, 143, 153, 166, 170, 173, 175, 182 Glasgow & South Western, 51 Glasgow Central, 107, 136 Glasgow Queen Street, 115 Glasgow’s Cowlairs Works, 28 Glasgow Springburn, 115 Gloucester Assizes, 65 Gloucestershire, 28 GNER (Great North Eastern Railway), 121, 138, 163–65 GNER Driver John Weddle, 164 Goswick, 95–97 Goswick station, 95 Government, 9–10, 13, 19, 22, 36, 51, 93, 117, 124, 161, 171 Grand Junction, 19 Grand Trunk Railway of Canada, 29 Grantham, 43, 45, 50 Grantham South and Grantham, 50 Grayrigg, 9, 29, 82, 121, 125, 163, 166–67, 170–71, 174, 177–78, 182, 184 Great Bridgeford, 81–82 Great Central Railways, 4, 175, 179 Great North Eastern Railway. See GNER Great War, 38, 48, 51, 85 Great Western. See GWR Great Western Managing Director Mark Hopwood, 184 , 6, 20, 24, 35, 41, 79, 140 Great Western Trains. See GWT Great Yarmouth, 29 Greece, 29, 180 Green, Barton, 143 Gresley, 68, 99, 175 Gretna Green, 51 Gretna Junction, 54, 153 Grisedale Crossing, 44 Grove Park, 100 guard, 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, 139 Guardian, 154, 156 GWR (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, 140 GWT (Great Western Trains), 140, 145, 147–48, 150

H Hackworth, Timothy, 144 Hall, Stan, 184 Hammersmith, 171 Hampshire, 3, 68, 179 Hardwicke, 39 Harness, 24 Harringay, 68 Harris, Nigel, 2, 4, 9, 16, 30, 155–56, 158, 165, 184 Harrison, Larry, 147, 149–50 Harrow, 3, 7, 34, 68, 92–95, 113 Harrow & Wealdstone, 5, 13, 15, 45, 48, 81, 90–92, 94–95, 113 Harrow & Wealdstone station, 90 Harrow collision, initial, 68 Harrow disaster, 95 Hart’s Land Rover, 164 Harwich, 29 Haslemere, 116 Haslemere train, 116 Hastings, 100 Hatfield, 45, 83, 129, 135, 138, 140, 143–44, 153–54, 157, 159, 165–68, 171, 174, 184 Hawes, 48 Hawes Inspector, 49 Hawes Junction, 5, 7, 13, 44–46, 49, 51, 63–64, 84 Haworth station, 5 Hayes, 150 Haymarket, 109 Health & Safety Executive, 9, 118, 123, 128, 144 Health & Safety Laboratories, 131 , 148 Helensburgh-Airdrie suburban, 115 Hemel Hempstead, 14 Henderson, Roger, 149 Henley branch, 50, 107 Herne Hill, 83 Hertfordshire, 14, 153 Hertfordshire Police, 157 Hever, 132 Heyford, 88 Hidden, Anthony, 117 Highland Express, 49 High Speed Train. See HST Hitachi’s Japanese-built Class, 167 Hither Green, 99 Hixon, 9, 93 Hixon Inquiry, 111 Hixon level, 111, 118 HM Assistant Chief Inspector Anna O’Connor, 184 HMRI (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, 139 HMRI Inspector Simon Smith, 184 HMRI/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, 181–83 HMRI Principal Inspector Ian Raxton, 184 Hodder, 151–52, 154 Hodder, Michael, 105, 140 Holland, 96 Holyhead freight train, 74 Hong Kong, 126 Hong Kong rail operator MTRC, 122 Horsham train, 118–19, 121 Howden, 21 H.Rich, 12 H.Robertson, 12 HS1, 51 HS2, 123 HSE (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, 181 HST (High Speed Train), 102, 118, 122, 140, 145, 147–52, 154, 169 Hughes, Tina, 176, 178 Hull & Selby Railway, 6, 21 Hutchinson, Charles, 29 I IECC (Integrated Electronic Control Centres), 126 IMCs (Infrastructure Maintenance Companies), 137, 171 Immingham-Ferrybridge coal train, 163 Improvement Notices, 140, 149, 171 Indian Railway Board, 53 Inebriated passengers, 21 inspectors, non-railway, 152–53 Integrated Electronic Control Centres (IECC), 126 Ireland, 13, 25, 33, 180 Isambard Kingdom Brunel, 19–20

J Jarvis, 156

K Keep Tower, 102 Keighley & Worth Valley Railway, 178 Kendal, 170 Kennett, 180 Kent, 180 Kilpatrick, 111 King, 4, 35, 44, 50, 83, 89, 99, 101–4, 106, 108, 110–12, 115, 124–25, 130–31, 144, 157–58, 161–63 King Coal, 103 Kings Cross, 64, 124 Kirkby Stephen, 49 Kirkpatrick, 54–55 Kirkpatrick signalman, 55 Kleboe, Raymond, 92, 94 Knighthood, 29, 53 Korea, 100 Kuwait, 100

L Labour Government, 7, 85, 129 post-war, 128 Labour Secretary, 9, 176 Ladbroke Grove, 9, 13, 45–46, 48, 80, 105, 129, 139–40, 143–45, 148–49, 152–54, 166, 169, 181 Ladbroke Grove crash, 155 Ladybank, 28 Lake District, 82 Lakeside & Haverthwaite, 4 Lambrigg, 82–83, 170, 175–77 Lambrigg signalbox, 82 Lamington SCR, 105 Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway, 7, 59 Lancaster, 35, 176 Land Rover, 164 Langley, 5, 12, 87, 95 Langley, Brig C.M., 96 Langworth, 105 Laos border, 100 Largs, 136 late George Heiron, 85 Latvia, 180 Lawrence Hill station, 143 Leeds, 16, 21, 178 Leeds-Bristol, 63 Leeds Holbeck Motive Power Depot, 89 Leeds tramway, 143 Leicester, 86 Leighton Buzzard, 6, 70, 72–73, 81 Leominster, 9 letter, resignation, 156 level crossings, 9, 22, 37, 41, 44, 62, 93, 113, 125, 132, 172, 175, 178, 181 automation of, 91, 96, 113 public, 91, 111, 113 lever collars, 7, 41, 54–55, 59 use of, 54–55 Lewes, 178 Lewisham, 33, 70, 93 Lewisham accident, 95 Lewisham Inquiry, 95 Lewisham St Johns, 91 Libya, 100 Lichfield LMR, 105 Lieut Colonel Weiderman USAF, 95 Lieutenant Colonel Yorke, 49 Light Rail Safety & Standard Board, 182 Lime Street, 136 Lincoln, 50, 105 Lincolnshire, 9 Lintorn, 12 Lithuania, 180 Littlehampton, 107 Littlehampton train, 119, 121 eight-coach, 121 Littlehampton-Victoria, 118 Liverpool, 19, 25, 34, 53, 87, 90, 110, 113–14, 136 Liverpool & Manchester Railway, 10, 19, 33, 36, 144 Liverpool Overhead Railway, 49 Liverpool-Scarborough passenger train, 168 Liverpool Street, 79, 82 Liverpool train, 65, 110, 114 Llanbryde, 107 LMS, 6, 20, 22, 38, 51, 53, 61, 66, 68, 75, 77, 79, 82, 128–29, 166 LMS Stanier Class, 3 LNER, 51, 53, 66, 68, 72–73, 83, 128–29 LNWR, 34–35, 43, 49–50, 53, 56, 77 locking, proper, 33 Lockington accident, 113 Locomotive Act, 29 London & Birmingham Railway, 24 London & North Eastern Railways, 51, 85 London & North Western Railway, 9, 33, 46 London & Southampton, 19 London & South Western Railway, 24, 45 London Bridge, 76, 106 London Brighton & South Coast Railway, 33 London Midland & Scottish, 51, 85, 128 London Midland & Scottish Railway, 10, 20 (LU), 58, 105, 115, 124–25, 171, 176 London Victoria, 83, 107 Longmoor, 3, 95 Longmoor Military Railway, 3, 68, 87 Longport, 69 Longwood & Milnsbridge, 127 Lord Advocate, 74 Lord Althorp, 19 Lord Ashby, 19 Lord Cullen, 140, 148, 155–56 Louise Christian, 154 lreland, 35–36 L-shaped configuration, 152 Lt-Col Addison, 39 Lt-Col Druitt, 53, 58 Lt-Col Hutchinson, 34 Lt Col McNaughton, 98, 113 Lt Col Mount, 67, 70, 72, 74 Lt-Col Mount, 62, 66 Lt-Col Pringle, 59 Lt-Col Rich, 34 Lt Col Sir Alan Mount, 74, 82, 86, 96, 103 Lt Col Townsend-Rose, 113 Lt Col Wilson, 70, 86, 91, 93, 95–96 Lt-Col Wilson, 83, 87 Lt Col Woodhouse, 87 Lt-Col Woodhouse, 83 Lt-Col Yorke, 50 Lt Galton, 26 Lt-Gen Sir Charles Pasley, 29 Lt Henry Tyler, 27 Ludlow, 91 LU infrastructure, 171 LU’s Hainault depot, 125 Luxembourg, 180 Lymington branch, 128 Lytham, 59, 63

M Macedonia, 68 Maidstone, 180 mail train, 28, 43, 137 Maj-Gen Hutchinson, 35–36, 39 Major General Charles Scrope Hutchinson , 29 Major King, 108, 112 management issues, 117 Manchester, 4, 9, 19, 34–35, 49, 61, 91, 93, 105, 110, 113–14, 123, 143, 166, 182 Manchester & Leeds Midland Counties North Midland South, 19 Manchester Metrolink, 143 Manchester Piccadilly, 9, 166 Manchester Sheffield & Lincolnshire Railway, 34 Manchester train, 110, 114 Marylebone, 49 Masson, Margaret, 163 Maudland, 41 Mayor Ken Livingston, 171 McMullen, 12, 87, 89 McNulty Report, 170 Meakin, George, 55 , 59 Middle East, 87, 96 Middleton, 16, 178 Middleton Railway, 178 Midland Railway, 35, 38, 89 Midland Railway Company, 35 Milton, 89, 91 Mont Cenis Railway, 33 Moorcock Tunnel, 44 Moorgate, 105 Moorgate disaster, 105 Morecambe, 180 Morpeth, 35, 50, 103–4, 110–11 Morpeth derailment, 111, 130 Morpeth driver, 7 Morpeth station, 7, 109, 111, 130 Morrison, Gavin, 102–3, 122–26, 128–29, 144, 166–69 Motorman Newson, 105 Motspur Park, 83 MR General Superintendent Sir Cecil Walter Paget, 48 multiple collisions, fatal, 144

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

O Office of Rail Regulation. See ORR Officer of Railways, 124 Oldham, 56 Old Oak Common, 63, 150 Olver, Maj Peter M., 96 ORR (Office of Rail Regulation), 2, 9–10, 19, 114, 123–24, 130, 136, 163, 167, 171– 72, 175–76, 179–84 ORR Development & Competency Manager Lee Collins, 184 ORR Senior Executive Paul Wilkinson, 184 Osborne, Alan, 12, 156, 161, 163, 166 Osborne’s resignation, 156, 167 , 176 Oxley Sidings, 62 Oxted, 133–34 Oxted-Uckfield, 132

P Pacific, 4, 15, 85, 87, 89–91, 95 Paddington, 24, 40–41, 50, 89, 105, 122, 145–47, 150–52 Paddington crash, 154 Paddington-South Wales, 85 Paddington station, 148 Paddington throat, 156 Paignton, 105, 126 Pakistan Western Railways, 95 Palestine, 100 paramedics, 95, 172 Pasley, Sir Charles W., 12 Peak District, 61, 144 Peak Forest, 144 Pelham, 39 Pendolino, 75, 121, 170, 177 Pendolino disaster, 170 Pendolino trains, 166, 173 Penkridge, 184 Pennines, 26, 89 Penrith, 176 Penzance, 40, 91 Periodic Review, 179, 181 Perth, 82, 90 Peterborough, 2, 99, 184 Peterborough signalman, 99 Petteril Bridge Junction, 35 Plamor, 164 Plymouth, 41, 50 Plymouth-Paddington passenger train, 79 Poland, 180 Polar Star, 89 Polesworth, 6–7, 15, 86 Polesworth derailment, 87 police, 9, 29, 95, 112, 148 Pollington Road, 163–64 Polmont, 24, 110–11, 119 Poole, 116 Poole train, 116–17 Portsmouth, 16 Portugal, 180 Post Office, 43, 50, 66, 106 Potters Bar, 9, 29, 82–83, 156, 160–62, 166, 168, 170 Potters Bar crash, 162 Potters Bar station, 156 Poyntz, Major John D., 3 Preston, 25, 41, 45, 59, 173 Preston station, 41, 49 Prime Minister John Major, 128 Princes Risborough, 49 Princess Anne, 90 Princess Arthur, 87–88 Principal Inspector, 140 Principal Inspector Caroline Wake OBE, 172 Principal Railway Employment Inspector, 115, 118 Pringle, John, 39 Pringle Committee, 41 Prosser, Ian, 6, 12–13, 124, 171–72, 177–78, 181, 184 PSB (power signal box), 103, 162, 177 Pullman, 64 Purley, 9, 118–19, 121, 139, 174 Purley accident, 107, 110

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

R RAIB (Rail Accident Investigation Branch), 118, 167, 169–71, 177, 182–84 RAIB’s Grayrigg report, 170 Rail Accident Investigation Branch. See RAIB Rail Express Systems (RES), 139 RAIL magazine, 129, 140, 147, 156, 161, 167, 176 RAIL magazine graphic, 153 RAIL Managing Editor Nigel Harris, 137, 156 Rail Regulator Tom Winsor, 135–36, 143, 155 Rail Review White Paper, 163 RAIL’s campaigning, 156 Railtrack, 123, 128, 131–32, 135–40, 143, 145, 147–50, 152–56, 167–68 Railtrack and maintenance contractor Balfour Beatty, 153 Railtrack Board, 155 Railtrack’s appeal, 149 Railtrack Scotland Director Janette Anderson, 153 Railway Accidents Simon French, 184 Railway Commission, 10 Railway Detectives, 184 Railway Electrification Committee, 39 Railway Employment Inspectors, 118, 130 Railway Executive, 53, 68, 84, 87 Railway Executive Committee, 78 railway historian/writer Chris Leigh, 184 Railway Regulation Act, 22 railways preserved, 178 privatised, 136, 166 Railways Act, 20, 22, 25, 33–34, 36–38, 51, 93, 113, 124, 128, 144, 163 post-1993, 13 Railway Safety & Standards Board, 161 Railway Safety Directorate (RSD), 181 Railway Safety Regulations, 22, 152, 163, 168 Railways Archive, 5, 9, 184 Railways Stan Hart, 184 Railway Training Centre, 95 Rainhill, 19, 28 Ramsbottom, 56 Ramsgate steam, 70 RCF (rolling contact fatigue), 132, 153 recommendations, 20–22, 25, 44, 50, 69, 79, 86, 93, 113, 117, 119, 131, 153, 155, 169–70 Reed, Col W.P., 87, 93, 96, 100 Restructuring HMRI, 172 Retford, 59 Retired Railway Inspector Major John Poyntz, 184 Rhine, 96, 179 Rhodes, 66 Ribblehead Viaduct, 29 Riddles, Robert, 175 RIDDOR accidents, 176 RI Goswick report, 97 RI investigations, 46, 54, 108 RI’s Captain Henry Tyler, 130 River Anker, 33 River Cray, 63 RMT Union, 136 Robertson, John, 95 Robertson, Stan, 131 Rocket, 19–21 rolling contact fatigue (RCF), 132, 153 Rolt, 5, 32, 44 Romania, 29, 180 Rothery, 36 Royal Academy, 148 Royal Artilleryman, 14, 79, 82 Royal Commission, 35 Royal Commission report, 33 Royal Engineers, former, 158 Royal Highlander, 62 Royal Mail, 137, 143 Royal Military Academy, 28–29, 39 Royal Northumberland Fusiliers, 103 Royal Scot, 14, 55, 70, 77, 79–80, 88–89 Royal Scot Class, 82, 87 Rt Hon David Lloyd George, 50 Rt Hon Sally Oppenheim, 113 Ryde Pier Head station, 168 Ryton, 24

S safety management, 3, 10, 12–13, 20, 22, 27–29, 39, 53, 68, 87, 95–96, 100, 118, 125, 140, 153, 167, 172, 175, 184 Salisbury, 43, 50 Salmon, Burton, 21 Saltley, 103 Sandilands, 124, 182 Schute, Col Johnny OBE, 181 Scotland, 25, 122, 130, 135, 137–38 Scotrail train, 135 Scout Green, 179 Secondman Graham, 104 Second World War, 53–54, 74, 85 Seer Green, 119 Sefton, Alan, 167 Sefton, Allan, 12 Selby, 163 Serious accidents in tunnels, 33 Settle Junction, 35 Sevenoaks, 63, 67 Severn Tunnel, 29 Severn Valley, 179 Seymour, Robin, 123 Seymour, Robin J., 12, 118 Shaftesbury, 19 , 179 Shark, 41, 49 Sheffield, 24, 143 Sheffield’s suburban streets, 143 Sherratt, Alan, 145 Shields Junction, 107 Shildon, 16 Shire Class, 70 Shooter, Adrian, 158 Shoreham air, 49 Shrewsbury, 43, 45, 50 signalbox, 7, 36, 41, 44, 50, 54–55, 59, 62, 65–66, 73, 82, 94, 96, 177 adjacent, 36 signalling, 29, 33–36, 82, 87, 91, 96, 103, 106, 115, 119, 139–40, 148, 152, 181 signalling errors, 7, 51 signalman, 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, 150 Signalman’s error, 119 signalmen, 4, 7, 24, 41, 44, 52–55, 58, 70, 74, 79, 83, 91, 100, 104 Signals Passed at Danger. See SPADs Silk Mill, 41 Simmons, 12 Simon, 184 Simpson, 66 Singapore, 126 Sir Alan Mount, 82–83, 87, 93 Sir Charles Pasley FRS, 22 Sir David Davies, 148 Sir Francis Marindin, 39 Sir Frederic Smith, 20–22 Sir John Cullen, 122–23 Sir John Pringle’s service, 39 Sir John Uff’s Public Inquiry Report, 146 Sir Thomas Bouch, 26 Slough, 24, 79 Slovakia, 180 Slovenia, 180 Smith, Frederic, 12, 20 Smith’s vacuum, 35 Somerton WR, 105 Sonning Cutting, 22 Southall, 9, 118, 129, 140, 143–45, 147–48, 150, 154, 156, 166, 174 Southall accident, 147 Southall collision, 140, 147–48 Southall HST, 147 Southall Inquiry, 148 South Croydon, 83 South Croydon Junction, 83 South Devon, 40 South East Asia, 87, 95 South Eastern Railway, 24, 33 South Eastern Railway Folkstone-London, 29 Southern Railway, 11, 83, 100 Southern Railway Drummond Class M7, 62 Southern Region, 86, 89, 99, 107 South Korea, 126 South Milford Junction, 21 Southport Chapel Street, 7 South Ruislip, 95 South Shields, 59 South signalbox, 50 South Western Railway, 34 South West Trains, 128 South Wingfield, 21 SPADs (Signals Passed at Danger), 9, 72, 110, 133, 136, 139–40, 148–49, 156, 168, 181 Spain, 180 Spath, 93 SR Bulleid, 173 Stafford, 74, 137–38 Staffordshire, 61, 93 Stainmore, 26 Stanier, 15, 53, 77, 88, 90 Stanier Class, 79, 90 Stan S.J.Robertson, 12 Staplehurst, 29 St Bede’s junction NER, 59 Steam World, 2, 184 Steam World Magazine, 2 Steam World Publishing, 2, 184 Stephenson, George, 4–5, 16, 19, 22, 144, 183 Steventon, 98 St George, 39 St Johns, 70 St Lucia, 28 St Michael, 39 St Neots, 64 St Nicholas Crossing, 34 Stockton & Darlington, 16 Stockton & Darlington Railway, 4–5, 10, 16, 26, 144 Stoke, 61, 110 Stoke Gifford, 85 Stoke-on-Trent, 35 Stonehouse Pool, 50 stop signals, red, 131, 145 Stowe Tunnel, 88 St Pancras, 35, 87 St Pancras International, 167 Strategic Rail Authority, 153, 166, 168 Streak, 85 Sudan Railways, 39 suicide by train, 105 Sunderland, 34 sunflower, 15, 153 Super Voyager trains, 177 Surrey Iron Railway, 16 Sutton, Alfred, 5 Sutton Tunnel, 32–33 Swaby, 80 Swansea, 140, 146–47 Sweden, 126, 180 S.Wilson, 12 Swindon, 21, 40, 79, 98, 150 switch rails, 29, 89, 161, 177 Sykes system, 89

T Talyllyn, 178 Tamworth, 33 Tangmere, 173 Tay, 28, 30, 35 Tay Bridge, 5, 26–27, 30, 32, 35, 73, 82, 93, 118, 138 Taylor’s Junction, 21 , 26, 179–80 Tewkesbury, 67 Thailand, 100 Thames, 33 Thames Clyde Express, 89 Thames-Clyde Express Glasgow, 87 Thames Trains, 105, 148, 152 Thames Turbo Class, 153 The1896 Prestonaccident, 42 Thirsk, 44 Thomas Wheatley North British Railway, 39 Thompson, Charlotte, 9, 161 Tindall, Gary, 180 Tinsley, 55 Titfield Thunderbolt, 22 Toton, 169 Toton-Willesden coal train, 75 Tower, 181 TPWS (Train Protection Warning System), 6, 83, 107, 136, 139–40, 152, 168–69, 173 track worker fatalities, 132 Trade Tay Bridge Disaster Inquiry, 138 Train Data Recorders and train protection, 138 Train Operating Unit (TOU), 133, 145 train protection, automatic, 7, 48, 62, 110, 129, 136, 168 train protection systems, 138, 168 Train Protection Warning System. See TPWS train register book (TRB), 55 tram, 13, 172, 182–83 Transport & Works Act, 131 Travelling Post Office, 138 Trent, 103 Tring, 69–70 Troubled Years, 2, 51, 53, 55, 57, 59, 61, 63, 65, 67 Tudor, Owen, 91, 101 Tunnock, 150 Tunstall, 61 Tyler, 28–29, 33–35 Henry, 28 Tyler’s Curve, 29 Tyne, 102

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

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

W WAGN (West Anglia Great Northern), 160 Wales, 25, 180 Walker, Timothy, 161 Walmsley, Fred, 96 Wandsworth, 16 war, 38, 48, 50–51, 59, 74, 78–79, 87, 156 Warren, Pam, 181 Warrington, 138 Waterloo, 45, 50, 116, 124 Waterloo Area Re-signalling System (WARS), 117 Waters, Chris, 180 Watford Junction station, 116 Watford Tunnel, 82, 98 Watt, James, 16 Waverley, 95, 109 Weedon, 87 Weedon derailment of September, 88 Welham, 159 Welham Curve, 153, 157 Welsh Guardsman, 89 Welwyn, 101 Welwyn Control, 79, 86 Welwyn control system, 89 Welwyn Garden City, 79, 89 Welwyn North, 91 Wembley, 107–8, 119 Wembley accident, 108 Wembley Central, 119 Wembley collision, 107 Wemyss Bay, 107 Wendover, 49 Wennington, 35 West Coast, 35, 41, 49, 87, 172–73 West Coast Main Line, 2, 9, 15, 26, 48–49, 51, 62, 70, 74, 79, 84, 87, 90, 93, 145, 166, 175, 179 West Coast Railway Company, 173 West Coast Railways, 173 Western Region, 89, 98 West Germany, 3 West Hampstead, 75–76 Westinghouse, 34 Westwood Junction, 99 West Yorkshire Regiment, 77 Whigham, Walter K., 85 Whitchurch, 43 White Star, 60 Wickwar, 62–63 Widnes, 46 Wigan, 136 Willesden, 138 Williams, Linda, 12, 167 Williams Review, 36, 129 Wilson, Bob, 68 Wilson, George, 68 Windsor, 89 Windward Islands, 90 Winsford, 84, 145, 147 Winsford Junction, 84–85 Winsford South Junction, 145 Winsford Station, 84, 86 Wiske Moor, 44 Witham, 161 Wolverhampton, 62 Wolverhampton train, 65 Woodhouse, 68 Woodlesford, 21 Woolwich, 29 Woolwich Arsenal, 86 Woolwich Dockyard station on receipt, 86 Wootton Bassett, 25, 173 Wootton Bassett Junction, protecting, 173 Worthing, 121 Worth Valley Railway, 5 Wrawby, 119 Wrawby Junction, 123 W.Tyler, 12 www.railwaysarchive.co.uk, 184 Wynn’s crew, 9

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

Z Zingari, 39

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