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When I get close to a full barrier level crossing by foot I normally wait until a train goes through so I know it going to be a few minutes until another train needs to go through so I can cross safely and get some distance way from the crossing

What song is this? A very interesting trailer. What an awful era of railways, Railtrack

Its just a shame that TOCS see fit these days to cut back on safety critical training and frequently recruit from off the street applicants rather than experienced staff from within the company. Drivers for example always had to come through the ranks learning the trade, understanding exactly how the railway works, how signalling works and how trains work. There is a massive amount to understand and learn to do the job, but today anyone can go straight in after a certain amount of training.

I've just built a 'single lead junction' on my model layout, but I didn't know that's what it was called until I listened to this episode!

East Anglia..... Love Joy!

We might not have AOCR but there are AOCL, locally monitored, in other words monitored by the train driver and the user of that crossing. As a now retired member of staff I have seen many misuses of these including one where somehow the car stopped under the train at the last second without any contact !

I'm a retired conductor and had a suicide, it still affects me now many years later. Please don't involve trains if you do feel suicidal, talk to someone.

Hi Dan...so glad to have you back on the youtube 'platform' -Thank you! I worked with Driver Matthews..a character,now retired and Driver Croxford's step son is a Lime St Driver to this day.

HELL YEAH <3 it's wonderful to see you back, i hope things get smoother for ya.

Also change title, 1984. You have been busy today 😅

Nice to see you back! 👌

The introduction notes above should read "tunnel near Brighton" not "tunnel near Bristol". Thank you for the story though.

Cracking!

50 years ago today. Tragic 😢

I wonder if it's because the same Locomotive was involved in another accident back in 1948 where a passenger pulled the emergency cord and another train ran from behind

Could you try do more Detail on Huddersfield train crash in 1905?

2744 Grand Parade was destroyed in the 1937 Castlecary rail accident on a snowy day

Just discovered this fascinating podcast. Really enjoyed it. It would be amazing to hear you give the Lockerbie Rail Disaster (yes I said Rail, not air) the same treatment. It's a very forgotten bit of history, but Lockerbie station was once the site of a rail disaster meaning that the town must be the smallest place in the world to have had two separate transport disasters. Just like Dumfries and Galloway itself has a tiny population for its area and yet is unlucky enough to be the scene of the UK's worst rail and air crashes.

A very interesting listen of a rather chilling series of events. Obviously, history cannot be re-written, but hindsight is a wonderful thing and in these situations, you often wonder what could've been done to prevent accidents like this from happening. One thing that I was thinking about, is the possible lack of reasonable audible warning from both the crossing and from the train. When these AOCRs were introduced and commissioned in the early '80s, train drivers should've possibly been given more information and instruction on how to approach them, as they were slightly different from the already existing AOCLs around (most notably, the lack of white driver indicator lights to inform that the crossing was active). It should've been mandatory for train drivers to sound their horns multiple times on approach to an AOCR (maybe similar to trains in the U.S. but probably not so over the top). Once at the activation / treadle point and then again about 10 seconds away from the crossing (however far that would be in meters, at top speed). And not little 'toots', big 2 or 3 tone blasts, to probably give warning that a train was coming, just in case of the worst case scenario, if the crossing did ever fail to activate. And from all the footage I've seen of Lockington crossing in action (and you'll know yourself since you've been there), the alarms there have always seemed fairly quiet, and may not be heard by some motorists in their vehicles (which may have possibly been the case at the time of the accident). And so it should've also been mandatory for all alarms at AOCRs and AOCLs to be raised to a certain volume, in order for all users of the crossing to hear them, on foot and in vehicles, to properly give and emphasise the message to STOP! But with all that being said, would accidents like this be inevitable, even if it hadn't happened at Lockington? Time has unfortunately shown that to be the case.

I was recommended your podcast, and I don't regret listening to this. Brilliant explanations!

Letting the poor die to save 40 grand... Shocking. Nationalisation won't even stop behaviour like this; as long as profit exists, this will always happen. 😔

Nice one but you missed the TMO and TMOB

2 years ago ! I remember when this came out wasn’t it yesterday ?

You missed 1 type of crossing called TMOB. (Train Manned Operated Barriers)

Funnily enough, it's a pretty neat video, since I wasn't quite sure about how AWS works when I first encountered it in a train sim.

Just passed my mod2 .. full of crossings the test lol . Wish I'd seen this earlier. Mind u I got 98% so it'll do. Great vid

Fantastic video! Really well done, I look forward to seeing the rest :)

Great to see you back Dan.

You figured it out then!

Very good to see you back ,hope all goes well for you.

3:11 no need to sound like a critic but it was 4 months not years months

Really powerful. Great music at the closing credits. Your observation about where post-Victorian railway safety had reached by 1915 has parallels with the current IT security industry. Some companies now choose to take security seriously, put in all the safe guards, monitor them, and they don't then appear in the news. But other companies ignore the investment, don't bother checking that the staff are following the procedures correctly and they get hacked....

Hey, I've seen that you've posted new episodes on other sites but not here on TH-cam. Are you not putting episodes on TH-cam anymore?

Very informative. Your podcast is amazing. Truly one of the best out there. Keep up the good work.

Great video I really enjoyed it. I know this is a bit late, but I’ve only just subscribed. I’m loving the podcasts too.

Thank you for all the podcasts you do, I hope you and your family had a good Christmas and New Year. Let's hope 2022 is better than the last 2 years.

I remember covering The Signalman in GCSE English in about 2002.

Loving your podcasts, any chance you could cover the Morpeth crash of 1969 please?

The driver of the Land Rover, who had fallen asleep at the wheel, causing his vehicle to veer off the M62 and onto the railway line, was convicted of causing death by dangerous driving, and was sentenced to 5 years in prison. After he was released, he relocated to Wales.

Could one argue that the system at large was at fault? Yes, the following systems/rules were not followed because of human error (block signalling, collars on signal levers and fireman not doing his due diligence when entering the box) but should there have been even more safety measures in place ?

Fascinating as ever, thank you!

Brilliant Video

Brilliant video. I love these little extras especially the signalling one.

As a kiddie, me and my cousins, all lads, used to swing on the gates when they went from closed to traffic to open to traffic. Great fun but we never realised just how dangerous it was. Amazing we all survived, lol.

These are wonderful, Dan. Is there any chance that you could string the transcripts together into an audio book for sale on the likes of Audible? Release them as Kindle books? There must be shedloads of us out in the world who would love it - to be able to listen to a string of audio or actually read them? Just a thought……I love these broadcasts!

Glad to see you back. Southall _and_ Ladbroke Grove. That was a grim era, but much was learnt

A great explanation in layman's terms on a fully preventable tragic incident.

Great to see that you are back. All accidents are grim and any loss of life is shattering, it's the events leading up to the accident where you find yourself wishing that "if that detail hadn't have happened" would the event turned out the way it did? At least lessons are learned. There have been three bad accidents close to me (WCML), Hixon (Level crossing incursion - 1968), Colwich Junction (Spad - 1986) & Rickerscote, Stafford (Axle Failure - 1996) this was covered in the Podcast 21/06/2021, all very close to my area. All with devastating results. With Hixon, the level crossing was replaced by a bridge in 2002 after a local man got killed in his car on the crossing in 1999.

Grand to hear from you again, sir. It's been far too long, though as I've gathered many congratulations are in order for all that's been happening to you outside of the show. You've certainly earned your rest. All the same, it's great to see the show returning, and delving into some of the really big names in British railway disasters. My gods, I'm looking forward to your breakdown of Quintinshill; I was almost sure you'd avoid that one as on the one hand it's the one everyone goes to sooner or later, while on the other hand it's the sort of big name that almost feels like a grand finale, the sort of event you save in your back pocket for a big extravaganza when you're ready to pack it in. If there's one name I didn't see though, I hold out hope for this year's Christmas special to perhaps be one of my favorite disasters (grim as it may be to call such a thing): Hawes Junction, 24 Dec.1910.

Fascinating! Excellent and lucid account of what happened. Keep the good work up, young man. In 1964 I was a very young, rising 17, Police Cadet with the Cheshire Constabulary. The day of this accident, I had come in from Macclesfield on the Stoke line not an hour before and walked up to Cheadle Hulme “Kremlin” to sign in and be ready for the day ahead. I hadn’t been in the Police station for more than half an hour when we were all called down to the accident. It was 3 days before I went home. We slept in small numbers in the cells at C/H Police station. Remember it very clearly even now in my 70’s. The cries of the children still haunt me.