27: Stapleton Road – 1921
100 years ago 6 track workers went to do their job and didn't return. They were run down and killed by a passing train in a tragic loss of life. Join
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26: Weedon – September 1951
A straight section of track suddenly becomes the scene of a violent derailment. A passenger train is smashed to pieces and 13 people lost their lives. Answers were needed, and
25: Sounds from the Scene – 25th Episode Special
Signals to Danger has reached 25 episodes, and a year of life. To celebrate, two special episodes have been created, experiments in slightly different types of content, the first is
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24: Polmont – 1984
On a Monday evening in July 1984 a passenger train collided with a cow between Edinburgh and Glasgow. The resulting derailment took the lives of 13 people and caused immense
23: Moreton-on-Lugg – 2010
In 2010 an accident took place on a level crossing at Herefordshire. An everyday trip turned into a disaster when the barriers opened as a train approached, two cars were hit
22: Cheadle Hulme – 1964
In 1964 a special train was put on to take 230 school children from Staffordshire to York. They were on their way to enjoy the sites of the city, a
21: Rickerscote – 1996
This weeks episode is a tale of travelling post offices and tanker wagons. Two trains collide outside Stafford station in 1996, one postal worker loses his life, and several carriages
20: Doncaster – 1951
On a peaceful March morning in 1951 a train derailed less than a minute outside Doncaster station. This short journey left 14 people dead and a carriage wrapped around a
19: Conington South – March 1967
In March of 1967, an express train left Kings Cross for an overnight trip to Edinburgh. An hour later 4 carriages of the train would be scattered over the East Coast
18: Wootton Bassett – March 2015
In 2015 a steam charter train came within 44 seconds of colliding with a high speed passenger train. A signal passed at red and some revelations about just what was taking