- The first railway fatality — the death of William Huskisson (1830)
- The Rednal train wreck on the Shrewsbury and Chester Railway (1865)
- Collision and burning of three trains in a tunnel (Great Northern and Midland lines (1866)
- Fall of a railway bridge at Beckenham on the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway(1866)
- The Disaster on the Great India Peninsula Railway (1869)
- Danger inside the Train: Crime on Victorian Railways
- The Tay Bridge Disaster
- The Railway Accident at Arsley (1877)
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