Railways Archive @RailwaysArchive
...opening up railway history. Current and historic railway documents, accident alerts and more. Mostly automated, for chat try owner @25kV railwaysarchive.co.uk United Kingdom Joined August 2012-
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We've been doing an audit on our accident report progress this week, and... we've got 300 reports left in the stockpile to publish, and a further 97 reports still to source. Once we've done that we will have achieved our goal to publish. every. single. UK. accident. report!
NEWDOC: Accident Returns: Extract for the Accident at Bundoran Junction on 16th December 1882 railwaysarchive.co.uk/docsummary.php…
NEWDOC: Accident Returns: Extract for the Accident at Bromley - Bickley on 24th November 1882 railwaysarchive.co.uk/docsummary.php…
NEWDOC: Accident Returns: Extract for the Accident at Brockenhurst on 3rd November 1882 railwaysarchive.co.uk/docsummary.php…
#OnThisDay 1966: The Great Central Railway closes as part of the Beeching cuts
NEWDOC: Accident Returns: Extract for the Accident at Crewe on 7th January 1881 railwaysarchive.co.uk/docsummary.php…
#OnThisDay 1913: 14 people are killed on the Midland Railway, in a collision and fire at Ais Gill on the Settle-Carlisle railwaysarchive.co.uk/eventsummary.p…
#OnThisDay 1886: The first train passes through the Severn Tunnel between England and Wales
NEWDOC: Accident Returns: Extract for the Accident at Clady - Strabane on 26th September 1881 railwaysarchive.co.uk/docsummary.php…
NEWDOC: Accident Returns: Extract for the Accident at Carrigtwohill on 23rd September 1881 railwaysarchive.co.uk/docsummary.php…
NEWDOC: Accident Returns: Extract for the Accident at Cardiff on 10th February 1881 railwaysarchive.co.uk/docsummary.php…
NEWDOC: Accident Returns: Extract for the Accident at Cameron Bridge on 21st June 1881 railwaysarchive.co.uk/docsummary.php…
NEWDOC: Accident Returns: Extract for the Accident at Broughty Pier on 21st May 1881 railwaysarchive.co.uk/docsummary.php…
NEWDOC: Accident Returns: Extract for the Accident at Brough on 15th July 1881 railwaysarchive.co.uk/docsummary.php…
NEWDOC: Accident Returns: Extract for the Accident at Brimscombe on 13th October 1882 railwaysarchive.co.uk/docsummary.php…
NEWDOC: Accident Returns: Extract for the Accident at Broomieknowe on 9th December 1881 railwaysarchive.co.uk/docsummary.php…
NEWDOC: Accident Returns: Extract for the Accident at Bridge of Earn - Abernethy on 23rd October 1882 railwaysarchive.co.uk/docsummary.php…
NEWDOC: Accident Returns: Extract for the Accident at Bricklayers Arms Junction on 4th February 1882 railwaysarchive.co.uk/docsummary.php…
NEWDOC: Accident Returns: Extract for the Accident at Coborn Road on 17th May 1882 railwaysarchive.co.uk/docsummary.php…
NEWDOC: Accident Returns: Extract for the Accident at Borough Market Junction on 20th November 1882 railwaysarchive.co.uk/docsummary.php…
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Remember about a year ago, when #RailNatter bemoaned the fact that the @H_S_E never published the report from the collapse of the Tesco tunnel at Gerrards Cross? Well, thanks to a tenacious viewer (and an intervention from @ICOnews), IT HAS BEEN PUBLISHED and it is BAD 🧨
NEWDOC: Investigation Report - Accident at Gerrards Cross on 30th June 2005 bit.ly/3S8hz00
Anyway, big shout-out to Lucas, who put all the legwork in on this one. You should be proud of yourself... And the HSE should be ashamed! x.com/railwaysarchiv…
All credit is due to Lucas Ainsworth for fighting a long FOI battle involving @ICOnews to get this into the public domain
Source of this content - "Glasgow Electric" on the @RailwaysArchive railwaysarchive.co.uk/docsummary.php…
@RailwaysArchive dear team I am trying to unsubscribe from your monthly email but the link to unsubscribe does not work. Please can you advise
Something for @MuseumCromwell - there’s a link with the building that now houses the museum.
#OnThisDay 1876: Two trains collide in a snowstorm at Abbots Ripton on the Great Northern railway - 14 people lose... bit.ly/10fmASG
@hines_stephen @RailwaysArchive The work Garry and the team behind @RailwaysArchive do is brilliant - all voluntary, not-for-profit. They deserve the praise - & indeed, were part of the inspiration behind what we do for the railway staff accidents.
This accident led to the second public inquiry into a rail accident (the first being the Tay Bridge collapse of 1879). A multi-causal event, like most accidents, Hixon demonstrated too the difficulties of managing change (in this case, when that change related to new technology).
#OnThisDay 1968: 11 are killed when an express train collides with a transformer being transported across a level c... bit.ly/Wiccq5
@RailwaysArchive On several projects I've used this accident as an example to explain to certain train manufacturers why hinging underframe equipment case doors at the bottom is a Bad Thing.
@RAIL I believe I will be saying it again in RAIL in a couple of issues' time (thanks @paul_rail), and again (and again) via my role @RSSB_rail, because we combat complacency with continued vigilance, and because the railway's corporate memory exists only while we remember it.
The Hatfield derailment was the end of the short experiment in making profit out of our railway infrastructure... 💰❌ Network Rail formed as a non-profit in the aftermath of the tragedy, and was fully-nationalised in 2014 🔧✔️
#OnThisDay 2000: Four people die as an express derails at Hatfield, precipitating chaos on the network bit.ly/RRYz0T
@RailwaysArchive @cyclist13 @ORailways Don't blame you - we keep asking ourselves what we've done and why have we done it to ourselves?! You've done a great job, plus it's truly excellent to have made the scanned reports available - a really important & valuable resource. If we can get towards that we'll be doing ok!
@RailwaysArchive @cyclist13 @ORailways @railandroad Year 14?! Argh ... But thanks for the support & encouragement, we'll stick with it. Hard to believe you've been going 14 yrs - & incredible that the end is in sight: well done, & keep it up! The help of @railandroad is invaluable for us, too. Thank goodness for them.
@RailwaysArchive @cyclist13 @ORailways And we should say that as we were figuring out how we might make our project work, we benefitted from in the help and guidance of @RailwaysArchive: so, publicly - thanks!
@cyclist13 @ORailways Thanks for this. The @RailwaysArchive is a brilliant resource - but only for passenger accidents. It doesn't feature worker cases (other than those casualties in the passenger accidents). We're trying to do something similar, but raising the profile of the worker cases!
@cyclist13 @ORailways @RailwaysArchive And yes, agree that @RailwaysArchive is easier to use - we've got a more difficult dataset behind our project, partly because of technical considerations behind the scenes. We'd love to make our front end more friendly, but so far haven't got the funds to do it. Watch this space!
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