In 2020 1.8 billion rail journeys were made in the UK...
what happens when it all goes wrong?
Signals to Danger is a podcast that tells the stories of the darkest days of the UK rail network.
Join us as we find out what happened, why it went wrong, and how we stop it from happening again.
The story of disaster
Each episode tells the detailed tale of the day of the accident, the who, where and how of each accident
The fingertip search
We tell the tale of how investigators descend on the scene, what they found and how they found it.
A new way forward
The disasters of the past improve the safety of the future, we close each episode by explaining how
Latest episodes
Episode 20 – Doncaster 1951
On a peaceful March morning in 1951 a train derailed…
Episode 19 – Conington South
In March of 1967, an express train left Kings Cross…
Episode 18 – Wootton Bassett
In 2015 a steam charter train came within 44 seconds…