15: Lockington – July 1986
It's the middle of summer and on a sunny Saturday morning 64 passengers start a train journey they will never forget. 9 people would lose their lives and the industry
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14: Grayrigg – February 2007
In 2007 a passenger train travelling at 95 miles an hour was scattered off the track and into a remote field just south of the Lake District. What caused the
13: Invergowrie – October 1979
An express train ploughs into the back of another on the shoreline in Scotland. The autumn morning was shattered and 5 lives lost. What caused the disaster, and how can
12: Ealing – 1973
Rush hour and an express train is leaving the capital bound for Oxford. At 70 miles an hour, the train violently derails, jackknifing carriages and leaving the loco on its side.
11: Summit Tunnel – December 2010
Just after Christmas, a train full of bleary-eyed travellers makes it's way across the Pennines. As they enter a tunnel at 70 miles an hour, the driver is horrified to
10: Shipton-on-Cherwell – December 1874
Christmas Eve 1874. As people make their way home to see friends and family, many swarmed to London stations to start their journey. Several hours after a train left London, it
9: Castlecary – December 1937
Two trains collide in the Scottish countryside, as snow falls and the wind whips around. 35 people lose their lives, two weeks before Christmas. It's crucial to find out the cause
8: Cowden – October 1994
2 Passenger trains collide head-on a rural single line. Five people lose their lives on a foggy autumn morning. One of them wasn't supposed to be there. What went wrong, who
7: Morpeth – June 1984
Northumbria plays host to one of the most infamous curves on the whole network. At twenty to one in the morning the sleeper from Aberdeen spills off the tracks and
6: Hatfield – October 2000
Another high-speed passenger train lies strewn across the tracks. 4 lives lost and a rail shattered into hundreds of pieces. Who's to blame, could it have been stopped? Join us