Heavy-rail - Accident Reports

Freight train derailment at East Somerset Junction, 20 March 2017.

Collision between a train and a fallen bridge parapet at Froxfield, Wiltshire, 22 February 2015.

Derailment of a train at Croxton level crossing, Norfolk, 12 September 2006.

Location: 30 miles south west of Prawle Point, Devon, England.

Incident at Llanbadarn Automatic Barrier Crossing, near Aberystwyth, 19 June 2011.

Location: Berthed at Royal Quays marina, North Shields, England.

Accident at Falls of Cruachan, Argyll, 6 June 2010.

Landslip and derailment at Loch Eilt, north-west Scotland, 22 January 2018.

Collision between a train and agricultural equipment at Kisby user worked crossing, Cambridgeshire, 19 August 2021.

Detachment of containers from freight wagons near Cheddington and Hardendale, 1 March 2008.

Location: Olna Firth, Shetland.

Track worker struck by train near Roade, Northamptonshire, 8 April 2020.

Near miss with a member of staff at Rowlands Castle station, Hampshire, 19 December 2020.

Location: High seas.

Pantograph assembly fell from the roof of a passenger train, near Littleport, Cambridgeshire, 5 January 2012.

Location: 200 miles off north north east of North Cape, New Zealand.

Location: Heavy weather 50 miles west of Guernsey, Channel Islands, fire at container berth in Algeciras, Spain.

Location: Aberdeen Harbour, Scotland.

Person struck and fatally injured at Bayles and Wylies footpath crossing, Bestwood, Nottingham, 28 November 2012.

Near miss between a train and heavy goods vehicle near Craven Arms, Shropshire, 22 July 2024.