Some real vintage stuff going on there. I was reading about an event back in the 1850s, before automatic continuous train braking was made compulsory and when many carriages still adhered to the old post carriage practise of stowing baggage in racks on the carriage roof. In wet weather the train guard made a late application of his van brake, causing the train to overshoot the wayside station by four hundred yards! Rather than reverse the train the passengers had to tramp along the track and then climb up in to the carriages, whilst a couple of porters and the guard had to heft baggage up on to the roof (I hope that someone had about five fathoms of line with them and a knowledge of slipknots). In any event, I expect some strong language was used by both the porters and the passengers (though not within earshot of any ladies present.....). Many would die in those vintage days as the industry learned hard lessons to do with safety.
Boiler explosions were all too common. One, on the NER on the former Newcastle & Carlisle tracks on the south bank of the Tyne destroyed the locomotive, scalded the footplate crew to death and a good part of the boiler landed across the river in Elswick. A hell of a way to go if out walking, minding your own business and destined to be under it when it landed.