Heritage-railways - Accident Reports

Runaway locomotive at Beddgelert, North Wales, 16 April 2019.

Child nearly falling through a missing toilet floor, South Devon Railway, 22 June 2017.

Serious injury to a passenger alighting from a train at Loughborough Central station, 14 January 2023.

Derailment of a passenger train at Gysgfa, Ffestiniog Railway 3 May 2008.

The blowback of a locomotive fire at Grosmont on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway, 16 April 2006.

Runaway hand trolley at Ramsbottom, East Lancashire Railway, 15 March 2018.

Derailment near Hampton Loade station, Severn Valley Railway, 28 September 2009.

Runaway and collision on the Welshpool and Llanfair Light Railway, 3 March 2010.

Fatal accident involving a train passenger at Twerton, 1 December 2018.

Unmanned train ran away before colliding with a set of unattended coaches on the Great Central Railway, 12 May 2014.

Investigation into safety at user worked crossings

Collision with debris from bridge GE19 near London Liverpool Street, 28 May 2008.

Signal passed at danger (SPAD) on the approach to Wootton Bassett Junction, Wiltshire, 7 March 2015

Locomotive failure near Winchfield, 23 November 2013.

Derailment of a passenger train at Carmont, Aberdeenshire, 12 August 2020.

Unsafe movement of locomotives being coupled on the Bluebell Railway, East Sussex, 9 August 2025.

Signal passed at danger and subsequent near miss, Chalfont & Latimer station, 21 June 2020.

Collision at Aviemore station on the Strathspey Railway, 29 September 2023.

Derailment of passenger train at Godmersham, Kent, 26 July 2015

Serious operational irregularity at Bagillt user worked crossing, Flintshire, involving an abnormally heavy road vehicle, 17 August 2018.