15 August 1874
Frightful Disaster to a Runaway Train at Bargoed Junction    On Wednesday, one of the most terrible and desctuctive collisions ever known in this area occurred outside Bargoed Junction Station, on the Rhymney Railway. The Station is the point of junction between the Rhymney and the northern section of the Brecon and Merthyr Railways. The line of the latter enters here the narrow gorge of the Rhymney-Bargoed valley, and by curves of short radii and gradients of 1:40 and even 1:38 ascends the side of the mountain through Deri and Vochriw, and so on to Dowlais Top. It is a single line, and the Rhymney Railway Company enjoy running powers over it as far as Dowlais. On Wednesday morning, a train of 40 ten-ton wagons laden with coal left the siding of the Dowlais Company’s Vochriw Colliery for Cardiff. It was drawn by one of the heavy and powerful new tank locomotives of the Rhymney Company, constructed especially for sharp curves and gradients, and had the usual brake-van at the rear. The driver was Joshua Forcey, and the fireman Joseph Hayman, both of Cardiff. The brakesman, John Ried, was on the train about half a dozen trucks behind the engine, and the guard, William Stockings, was about the same distance from the rear, both being on the train for the purpose of putting down the brakes. Most of the trucks were new and the brakes in good condition. The atmosphere, however, was moist, and the rain came on which made the rails greasey. The train proceeded safely from Vochriw to the Deri Station, and when it passed through that place there were 37 brakes down. But it is here that the steepest gradients begin, and in descending these, the train acquired a speed that increased at such a rate that it was clear that the engine had lost control. The driver commenced sounding the brake whistle and kept it going. The engine was reversed and every effort made to arrest the progress of the train without the slightest success. It seems that only the enormous weight of the train could have kept it on the rails. The alarm whistle was heard at Bargoed, but the runaway was quickly at the Junction and collided with an engine and trucks standing at a watering tank, before both engines, trucks and their contents rolled over the embankment into the ravine 50 feet below in a mass of indescribable confusion and destruction. The driver and fireman of the runaway were killed.

30 June 1877
Thomas Lewis Jones 43 yrs haulier, 37 East St Dowlais early Wednesday crushed by train in Fochriw Colliery.

29 June 1878
Fatal Accident   On Saturday morning, one of the most dreadful accidents resulting in instantaneous death, befel a young man named Daniel Thomas. The man had only recently come to Rhymney from Vochriw, and was employed as a breaksman with No.2 engine. He had only commenced work in the job the previous Tuesday. Whilst involved in shunting work in the Rhymney yard side near the mouth of the tunnel, which is customarily done by the means of chains, the man was walking backwards in front of some empty iron stone trucks, when his foot accidentally became fastened between the point rails of the switch. He failed to release himself and was knocked down by a truck which passed completely over his poor body, and so mutilated it that one side of his head was smashed to atoms and his brains scattered about the place. On Tuesday, an inquest was held on the body by Mr. W. H. Brewer, coroner, at the Royal Arms, when evidence of the facts above related was given by John Stevens, the driver, and in accordance with which a verdict of "Accidental Death" was returned.

25 September 1880
Inquest   On Saturday an inquest was held at the Rising Sun upon the body of John Jones, Twynyrodin, who met with his death by endeavouring to jump on a locomotive engine while passing by the Tunnel Pits. The verdict was “accidental death.” It was proposed by the foreman of the jury, Rev. W. Jones-Evans, that the fees should be handed to the widowed mother, a hard-working woman, who had been widowed for 11 years, her husband having been killed in one of the Vochriw pits in 1869.