The most insightful stories about Railways

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Max S
Cable Chaos: The 1988 Clapham Junction (England) Train Collision
An unnoticed wiring error leads to an undiscovered signal malfunction, causing 3 passenger trains to collide. 35 people die.1 day ago
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17 min read
Max S
Into the Wall: The 1988 Hochspeyer (Germany) Train Collision
A freight rain runs into the debris from a collapsed retaining wall, derails, and collides with an oncoming express train. One person dies.Jan 16
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10 min read
Mark Kleimann
What is the Most Breath-taking Railway you have been on?
What do remember, to this day?Jan 15
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3 min read
Matthew Word Bain
From Chesapeake to Ohio
Jan 10
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1 min read
Max S
Isolation Incident: The 2012 Aachen-Eilendorf Train Fire
Faulty wiring causes a passenger train to catch fire while moving. 7 people are injured.Jan 9
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6 min read
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John Welford
The Tay Bridge Rail Disaster, 1879
A famous disaster caused by bad design and other factorsJan 10
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7 min read
Max S
Slippery Slope: The 2009 Kaštela (Croatia) Train Derailment
A passenger train and rescue train both derail after falsely applied fire retardant makes the tracks too slippery to slow down. 6 people…Jan 2
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8 min read
John Welford
The Grantham Rail Crash, 1906
Why it happened is a continuing mysteryJan 2
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3 min read
Fizza Saeed
On Leaving
Sometimes there are no words and the traveler walks away, carrying the silence of time.Jan 1
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1 min read
John Welford
The Ditton Junction Rail Crash, 1912
A holiday excursion ended in disasterDec 31, 2021
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4 min read
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John WelfordI am a retired librarian, living in a village in Leicestershire. I write fiction and poetry, plus articles on literature, history, and much more besides.
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