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*On 20 January 1862, just a few days before the railway's opening, a train hit the gates of a level crossing near Buildwas. "Owing to some inadvertence, the gates were not attended to, and consequently the engine dashed through, scattering the fragments of the gates right and left, with terrific force."<ref>[https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000401/18620124/076/0006 Shrewsbury Chronicle on The British Newspaper Archive]</ref>
*On 13 February 1862, a similar mishap occurred near Broseley when, despite the driver sounding his whistle, the gatekeeper "was observed in deep conversation with another man" and failed to open both gates in time, resulting in one of the gates being "shattered to atoms".<ref>[https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001308/18620219/119/0007 Shrewsbury Chronicle on The British Newspaper Archive]</ref>
*On 8 November 1866, a goods train from Buildwas ran through signals approaching Bewdley and collided with a standing goods train. The driver was fined for running too fast and the guard for failing to apply brakes when signalled to do so, the latter being cited as the main cause of the accident. Most locomotives of that time had either hand brakes on the tender only, or in the case of some tank engines, no brakes at all, train braking being primarily the responsibility of the guard acting on signals from the driver. Continuous brakes began to be introduced in the mid 1870s.<ref name="Marshall">Marshall (1989)</ref>.
*On 7 May 1870 a collision occurred at Bridgnorth when a porter set points incorrectly. The points were not interlocked with the signals<ref name="Marshall" />.
*On 7 August 1880 "On Saturday a passenger train leaving Bridgnorth about 7.40 ran off the line between Hampton Lode and Highley, on the Severn Valley Railway, owing to a cow having strayed on to the line, which has a sharp curve at the spot. The passengers were severely shaken, and the traffic blocked for several hours."<ref>[https://newspapers.library.wales/view/3420560/3420567/156/ The Cardiff Times on the National Library of Wales archive]</ref>
*On 10 October 1888 the 6.30pm Stourbridge Goods from Tenbury ran into a passenger train from Shrewsbury at the north end of Bewdley Station. The passenger train had passed the home signal at danger and moved into the path of the goods. The report was published on 26 November 1888.<ref name="Beddoes" /><ref>[https://www.railwaysarchive.co.uk/docsummary.php?docID=6984 Railways Archive accident report] (Retrieved 8 November 2019)</ref>
