the 1960s, though there were some notable incidents: On 20 November 1929, the driver and fireman of a northbound goods train were overcome by smoke in the Combe Down Tunnel north of Midford. The train was moving very slowly due to a heavy load and having started from a standstill at Midford. The locomotive, S&DJR 7F 2-8-0 No. 89, plodded on and eventually breasted the summit of the gradient. Its downward course to Bath was accomplished more quickly, and the train ran away, crashing into the goods yard on the approach to Bath Green Park railway station, killing the driver, Henry Jennings, and two railway employees in the yard. Almost exactly sixty years after the Radstock accident, on 29 July 1936, the crew of an empty colliery wagon train at Foxcote mistakenly abandoned their engine, fearing an imminent collision with another train. The driverless train caused widespread damage at Wellow and Midford stations before becoming derailed only a few miles from Bath, but there were no deaths. See also List of rail accidents in the United Kingdom Notes Sources External links Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway site newspaper cutting in the National Library of Australia Railway accidents and incidents in Somerset 1876 in England Railway accidents in 1876 Radstock Train collisions in England History of Somerset Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway 19th century in Somerset 1876 disasters in the United Kingdom