#epd — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #epd, aggregated by home.social.
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Keine Sicherheitsupdates mehr für #Android13: Auch E-Patientenakte betroffen | heise online https://www.heise.de/news/Keine-Sicherheitsupdates-mehr-fuer-Android-13-Auch-E-Patientenakte-betroffen-11262340.html #iOS17 #Android :android: #iOS#EoL #EndOfLife #Digitalisierung#digitalization #DigitalHealth #elektronischesPatientendossier #ePD #ePA #elektronischePatientenakte #eGD #elektronischesGesundheitsdossier
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Gesundheitsdaten aus UK Biobank auf #Alibaba angeboten | heise online https://www.heise.de/news/Gesundheitsdaten-aus-UK-Biobank-auf-Alibaba-angeboten-11272997.html #Digitalisierung #digitalization #DigitalHealth #Forschung #research #science #Wissenschaft #Datenschutz #privacy #Datenleck #DataLeak #elektronischesPatientendossier #ePD #ePA #elektronischePatientenakte #eGD #elektronischesGesundheitsdossier
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Gesundheitsdigitalisierung: Florian Fuhrmann über die neue Rolle der #Gematik | heise online https://www.heise.de/news/Gesundheitsdigitalisierung-Florian-Fuhrmann-ueber-die-neue-Rolle-der-Gematik-11267694.html #Digitalisierung #digitalization #DigitalHealth #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #Datenschutz #privacy #elektronischePatientenakte #ePA #elektronischesPatientendossier #ePD #elektronischesGesundheitsdossier #eGD #Forschung #research #Wissenschaft #science
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Europäischer Gesundheitsdatenraum: Deutschland 🇩🇪 muss Daten bereitstellen | heise online https://www.heise.de/news/DMEA-2026-Gesundheitsministerium-draengt-auf-mehr-Datennutzung-11265672.html #Digitalisierung #digitalization #DigitalHealth #elektronischesPatientendossier #ePD #ePA #elektronischePatientenakte #eGD #elektronischesGesundheitsdossier #EHDS #EuropeanHealthDataSpace #Forschung #research #Wissenschaft #science #Datenschutz #privacy
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#DMEA: Warken über Datenausleitung aus der elektronischen Patientenakte und mehr | heise online https://www.heise.de/news/DMEA-Warken-ueber-Datenausleitung-aus-der-elektronischen-Patientenakte-und-mehr-11265986.html #Digitalisierung #digitalization #DigitalHealth #elektronischesPatientendossier #ePD #ePA #elektronischePatientenakte #eGD #elektronischesGesundheitsdossier #DMEA26 #DMEA2026
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Sparbeschluss bringt E-GD ins Wanken - medinside.ch
Die Spitzen von Hplus, Pharmasuisse und FMH verlangen bei der Beratung zum Elektronischen Gesundheitsdossier einen Marschhalt.
https://www.medinside.ch/sparbeschluss-bringt-e-gd-ins-wanken-20260414 #Digitalisierung #digitalization #DigitalHealth #elektronischesGesundheitsdossier #eGD #elektronischePatientenakte #ePA #elektronischesPatientendossier #ePD -
#Telekom kündigt eigene #ePA an: Noch mehr Vielfalt im Markt und offene Fragen | heise online https://www.heise.de/news/Telekom-kuendigt-eigene-ePA-an-Noch-mehr-Vielfalt-im-Markt-und-offene-Fragen-11263567.html #Digitalisierung #digitalization #DigitalHealth #elektronischesPatientendossier #ePD #elektronischePatientenakte #eGD #elektronischesGesundheitsdossier
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BMG: „Viel volkswirtschaftliche Power“ hinter Gesundheitsdatennutzung | heise online https://www.heise.de/news/BMG-Viel-volkswirtschaftliche-Power-hinter-Gesundheitsdatennutzung-11264442.html #Digitalisierung #digitalization #DigitalHealth #elektronischePatientenakte #ePA #elektronischesGesundheitsdossier #ePD #elektronischesGesundheitsdossier #eGD #ArtificialIntelligence #AI
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#DigitalHealth-Podcast 🎧: Fortschritt und Frust bei elektronischer Patientenakte | heise online https://www.heise.de/news/Digital-Health-Podcast-Zwischen-Fortschritt-und-Frust-bei-der-E-Patientenakte-11259036.html #Digitalisierung #digitalization #elektronischePatientenakte #ePA #elektronischesPatientendossier #ePD #elektronischesGesundheitsdossier #eGD
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Gesundheits-IT: Europäischer Gesundheitsdatenraum ein Fokus der #DMEA2026 | heise online https://www.heise.de/news/Gesundheits-IT-Europaeischer-Gesundheitsdatenraum-ein-Fokus-der-DMEA-2026-11260333.html #DMEA #Digitalisierung #digitalization #DigitalHealth #elektronischesPatientendossier #ePD #ePA #elektronischePatientenakte #eGD #elektronischesGesundheitsdossier #Forschung #research
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En omdat #Chipsoft de grootste leverancier in Nederland is van functionaliteit voor elektronische patiëntendossiers (#EPD's), zitten jouw #UMC-patiëntengegevens ook in Chipsofts HiX.
https://innovatieplatform.chipsoft.com/hix-tips-tricks-behandelaren/
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Berichten over Chipsoft herinneren me m steeds aan de documentaire ‘Dodelijke zorg’. Een eyeopener.
Dus kijktip voor meer inzicht in EPD-software en organisaties. #ziekenhuis #epd
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Het grootste probleem met Chipsoft is hun monopoliepositie https://mastodon.social/@Matthijs85/116368638795256513
Als gevolg daarvan plunderen ze zorg, met een zieke winstmarge van 38%,
en beschouwen ze goede beveiliging vooral als kostenpost:
"Ze gaan toch niet bij ons weg" #Chipsoft #cybersecurity #EPD #privacy #zorg -
Patientinnen und Ärzte uneins über Nutzen von EPD - inside-it[.]ch
Bei Frau und Herr Schweizer wächst das Interesse an einem digitalen Gesundheitsdossier wieder. Gesundheitsfachpersonen erkennen weiter keinen Nutzen und befürchten Mehraufwand.
https://www.inside-it.ch/patientinnen-und-arzte-uneins-ueber-nutzen-von-epd-20260410 #Digitalisierung #digitalization #DigitalHealth #elektronischesPatientendossier #ePD #ePA #elektronischePatientenakte #eGD #elektronischesGesundheitsdossier -
„Die #ePA ist im Moment nichts anderes als ein Sammelsurium an Dokumenten" | heise online https://www.heise.de/hintergrund/HAePPI-Wie-Hausaerzte-mit-Delegation-und-digitalen-Tools-mehr-Patienten-versorgen-11249958.html #Digitalisierung #digitalization #DigitalHealth #elektronischePatientenakte #elektronischesPatientendossier #ePD #elektronischesGesundheitsdossier #eGD #ArtificialIntelligence #AI
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#ElektronischePatientenakte: Weiterer Aktensystemanbieter in der Zulassung | heise online https://www.heise.de/news/Elektronische-Patientenakte-Weiterer-Aktensystemanbieter-in-der-Zulassung-11250633.html #Digitalisierung #digitalization #DigitalHealth #ePA #elektronischesPatientendossier #ePD #elektronischesPatientendossier #eGD
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@wiert : ik weet niet hoe groot de rol van verzekeraars is m.b.t. eisen aan een ZIS, maar sowieso hangt het af van hoe je "ingewikkeldheid" uitlegt.
Rocket Science wordt meestal uitgelegd als dat uitsluitend hoogopgeleide bollebozen ertoe in staat zouden zijn (maar zelfs dat is discutabel). Een ZIS verwerkt vooral véél verschillende data.
Ik heb ooit bij een bedrijfje gewerkt dat redelijk verdiende aan maatwerksoftware voor een heel andere bedrijfstak. Probleem: de programmeurs pakten de sources voor de laatste klant en pasten die aan voor de nieuwe afnemer. Er was totaal geen sprake van een modulaire opzet. Bugfixing en testen (voor zover dat gebeurde) was een ramp. Het is mij redelijk gelukt om dat om te bouwen naar een generieke basis met maatwerkmodules voor klanten, maar uiteindelijk ben ik daar toch gillend weggelopen omdat collega's bleven aanrommelen.
Of HiX van Chipsoft fatsoenlijk modulair is opgezet weet ik niet - maar ziekenhuizen en maatschappen zijn concurrenten van elkaar, waar Chipsoft van profiteert. Ik vermoed dat elke ziekenhuisafdeling haar eigen schermindelingen eist. Als HiX ingevoerde gegevens niet naar gestandaardiseerde gegevens in de database vertaalt zijn ook koppelingen tussen HiX-systemen een ramp.
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GeDIG-Gesetzentwurf: #ePA soll zum digitalen Eingang ins Gesundheitssystem werden | heise online https://www.heise.de/news/GeDIG-Gesetzentwurf-ePA-soll-zum-digitalen-Eingang-ins-Gesundheitssystem-werden-11244876.html #Digitalisierung #digitalization #DigitalHealth #elektronischesPatientendossier #ePD #elektronischePatientenakte #eGD #elektronischesGesundheitsdossier
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Ministerie VWS beveiligt EPD onvoldoende https://pointer.kro-ncrv.nl/ministerie-van-vws-onvoldoende-maatregelen-nieuw-landelijk-elektronisch-patientendossier-beveiligen
Stop de uitrol van deze privacyramp! #privacy #EPD #zorg -
Ministerie VWS beveiligt EPD onvoldoende https://pointer.kro-ncrv.nl/ministerie-van-vws-onvoldoende-maatregelen-nieuw-landelijk-elektronisch-patientendossier-beveiligen
Stop de uitrol van deze privacyramp! #privacy #EPD #zorg -
Missing Link: Fünf Trends Digitaler Gesundheit und was sie bedeuten | heise online https://www.heise.de/hintergrund/Missing-Link-Fuenf-Trends-Digitaler-Gesundheit-und-was-sie-bedeuten-11200122.html #Digitalisierung #digitalization #DigitalHealth #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #elektronischePatientenakte #ePA #elektronischesPatientendossier #ePD #elektronischesGesundheitsdossier #eGD #Datenschutz #privacy
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E-Patientenakte & Co.: Wir brauchen mehr Ehrlichkeit bei Gesundheitsdaten | heise online https://www.heise.de/hintergrund/Abrechnungsdaten-ePA-Co-Wir-brauchen-mehr-Ehrlichkeit-bei-Gesundheitsdaten-11198716.html #Digitalisierung #digitalization #DigitalHealth #ePA #elektronischePatientenakte #ePD #elektronischesPatientendossier #eGD #elektronischesGesundheitsdossier #Forschung #Wissenschaft #science #research
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In #Niedersachsen ist der #GenderPayGap wieder angestiegen. Strukturelle Ungleichheiten und Diskriminierung sorgen dafür, dass Frauen deutlich weniger verdienen als Männer. Anlässlich des #EqualPayDay ist klar: Die Ursachen müssen endlich entschiedener angegangen werden.
Konkrete Maßnahmen in unserem aktuellen #schlaglicht 👉 https://niedersachsen-bremen-sachsenanhalt.dgb.de/aktuelles/news/gender-pay-gap-her-mit-equal-pay-every-day/
#DGB #Gewerkschaft #StarkMituns #EqualPay #EPD #Tarifwende #Gleichstellung #Gleichberechtigung #Care #Carearbeit #Minijobs #Kita
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Ein Jahr „ePA für alle“: Verbraucherschützer sehen derzeit keinen Mehrwert | heise online https://www.heise.de/news/Elektronische-Patientenakte-Verbraucherschuetzer-fordern-unabhaengige-Evaluation-10916817.html #Digitalisierung #digitalization #DigitalHealth #elektronischesPatientendossier #ePD #ePA #elektronischePatientenakte #eGD #elektronischesGesundheitsdossier
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Anwender hadern weiter mit elektronischer Patientenakte | heise online https://www.heise.de/news/Anwender-hadern-weiter-mit-elektronischer-Patientenakte-11181315.html #Digitalisierung #digitalization #DigitalHealth #elektronischesPatientendossier #ePD #ePA #elektronischePatientenakte #eGD #elektronischesGesundheitsdossier
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Private Krankenversicherungen: Daten und KI als Schlüssel für bessere Versorgung | heise online https://www.heise.de/news/Private-Krankenversicherungen-Daten-und-KI-als-Schluessel-fuer-bessere-Versorgung-11144062.html #Digitalisierung #digitalization #DigitalHealth #elektronischesPatientendossier #ePD #ePA #elektronischePatientenakte #eGD #elektronischesGesundheitsdossier #ArtificialIntelligence
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#ElektronischePatientenakte: Kelber @ulrichkelber kritisiert Sicherheit und Reklamekampagne | heise online https://www.heise.de/news/Scharfe-Abrechnung-an-der-ePA-Kelber-kritisiert-Sicherheit-und-Reklamekampagne-11107555.html #Datenschutz #privacy #ePA #Digitalisierung #digitalization #DigitalHealth #Forschung #research #Wissenschaft #science #EHDS #EuropeanHealthDataSpace #elektronischesPatientendossier #ePD #elektronischesGesundheitsdossier #eGD
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Gesundheitsakte & Co: Warken verspricht Betriebsstabilität und Ausfallsicherheit | heise online https://www.heise.de/news/Gesundheitsakte-Co-Warken-verspricht-Betriebsstabilitaet-und-Ausfallsicherheit-11090660.html #Digitalisierung #digitalization #DigitalHealth #EHDS #EuropeanHealthDataSpace #elektronischePatientenakte #ePA #elektronischesPatientendossier #ePD #elektronischesGesundheitsdossier #eGD
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Why EPDs Matter for Modern Construction & Manufacturing
Understand how EPDs improve transparency, reduce environmental impact, and boost certification scorecards.
https://www.envirolink.me/environmental-product-declaration-epd-understanding-its-importance/#EPD #SustainableMaterials #GreenBuilding #EnvironmentalImpact #Transparency
EPD, Environmental Reporting, Green Materials, Sustainability, LCA Documentation -
EPD vs HPD vs LCA: Choosing the Right Sustainability Certification for Building Materials
Understand the key differences between EPD, HPD, and LCA certifications. Learn how to select the best sustainability certification for your construction materials and improve your green building score.
https://certificationconsultant.com/epd-vs-hpd-vs-lca-sustainability-certifications/
EPD certification, HPD certification, LCA building materials, sustainability certification, green building UAE
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Der Digitalpolitische Wochenrückblick. Es gab noch einige weitere wichtige Themen, die ihr wie immer hier bei den Quellen findet: https://piratenpartei.ch/digitalpolitische-woche/
Mit Beiträgen von/mit:
@carinahuppertz
@fingolas
@mho @revogt #Kennzeichenscanner #Polizeigesetz #Gesichtserkennung #Telegram #YouTube #Nachrichtendienst #Assange #FreeAssange #Chatkontrolle #EPD -
Illicit goings-on beneath the New Town setts: the thread about the life and crimes of the Scotland Street Tunnel
Scotland Street, on the northern firnge of Edinburgh’s Second or Northern New Town; not the grandest or longest such street, but certainly one of the more interesting. But what draws me to it is what you cannot see – the 1,052 yard long tunnel running a few tens of feet beneath its granite setts. Previous threads have looked in detail at the construction, engineering and operation of the tunnel, its terminus at Canal Street Station or tragic accidents during its service life. No, as the title suggests this story is about the various criminal goings-on that it attracted in its short service life from 1847-1868.
Looking south up Scotland Street. CC-by-SA 2.0 Jim Barton via GeographThings start getting going in our story in February 1858 when an urgent telegram arrived at the Leith Police station with a description of a man wanted in Aberdeen for thefts and who had fled that city on the steamer Sovereign, bound for Granton.
Advert for the Aberdeen, Leith & Clyde Shipping Co. steamer “Sovereign” in the Edinburgh Evening Courant, 26th June 1858Two detectives were despatched from Leith to Granton station which was adjacent to the steamer quay. Here they managed to identify their mark but instead of clapping him in irons then and there, they boarded the same compartment on the Edinburgh train as him, and only announced themselves to him once they started heading south towards Scotland Street.
Granton Harbour and Pier, c. 1880, from Grant’s Old & New Edinburgh. The trains in the foreground are running on the railway embankment, Granton Middle Pier, where the station buildings are, lies beyond, with the steamers tied up alongsideThey made the suspect “aware of his predicament” but did not handcuff him. At Scotland Street Station their train was detached from the locomotive and attached to the haulage rope which would pull it up the tunnel incline to its destination at Canal Street. With a jerk, the train moved off into the darkness – there was no carriage lighting.
So you can imagine the look of surprise on the detectives’ faces when they emerged into the light at Canal Street Station only to find they were now alone in the compartment! Their man had somehow managed to slip silently out of the carriage in the pitch darkness of the tunnel! After alerting the railway authorities, the detectives trudged off back down the tunnel to search Scotland Street Station. On arriving there and interrogating the staff, it was found that a porter had seen a man emerging from the tunnel who had climbed over a fence, never to be seen again. The police had to be consoled in retrieving their suspect’s luggage, in which the items he had been accused of stealing in Aberdeen were found.
You would think that police accompanying prisoners through the tunnel would have been more careful in future. You’d think, but they weren’t, and in January 1864 a prisoner by the name of Peter Brown managed to pull off the same trick. Brown, (aka John Graham, aka John Farrel, aka Robert Young) had been detained in Larbert a few days previously by Superintendent Gray for the crime of stealing a silver watch, a pair of trousers, a vest and a shirt from the house of Widow McKay in the High Street of Falkirk. He had been cooling his heels in Perth Prison ever since, but was now to be brought to Edinburgh for the purposes of identifying him for other offences. A single officer was to accompany him, who at least took the precaution of handcuffing him. They took the 145PM from Perth, which had to cross the Forth by steamer from Burntisland to Granton, before picking up the train again for the short ride into the city centre via the tunnel. Once again, an unlucky officer emerged at the Canal Street terminus without his charge.
“A watercolour showing an east view of Edinburgh taken from the Scott Monument”, with a train emerging from the Scotland Street Tunnel to the terminus of the railway at Canal Street Station. Beyond lies the station that would grow into Waverley. Princes Street is on the left, Waverley Bridge in the foreground. Joseph Ebsworth, 1847, © Edinburgh Museums & GalleriesHe had actually noticed his prisoner missing while in the tunnel but groping around in the dark for him, all he had managed to do was to upset his understandably surprised fellow passengers. Telegraphs were sent off and the policeman ran off down the tunnel in pursuit. Half way back down, the prisoner’s cap was retrieved. Back at Scotland Street Station, a porter once again described seeing a man emerge from the tunnel before existing the station, never to never be seen again. Once again, the Police were left empty handed and with egg on their faces. The Stirling Observer expressed surprise that a felon who was so “peculiarly dull-looking” could have managed to outwit the authorities with such “a daring piece of cleverness.”
Looking up to Scotland Street – marked by the street lamp – from the tunnel portal. A staircase was once fixed to the iron supports on the right. Photo © SelfThefts were common on the railway. That very same day that the fugitive from Aberdeen had given the Leith Police the slip in the tunnel – Friday 12th February 1858 – James Ross, “a perfect adept in the light-fingered art” plead guilty at the Edinburgh Police Court to pickpocketing eight half-crowns from a lady at the station the previous day; for his efforts he received 60 days hard labour. In July 1859, a woman travelling from Leith to Edinburgh was relieved of £6, 17s 3d from her purse by three “Cockney gentlemen” who joined her in a first class compartment at Bonnington Station and left again in peculiar circumstances at Scotland Street, loudly claiming to all in the carriage that they had bought the wrong tickets and wanted instead to go to Granton. The victim arrived at Canal Street to find her purse empty, and immediately gave a description to the Police. There was a problem with a “Swell Mob” of Cockney pickpockets in Edinburgh that summer and the Police knew where they liked to hang out in the howffs of the West Port. Detectives Youdall and Leadbetter were efficient in their duties, picking up Richard Myars in a “thieves den” before finding John Tonner and James Clark hiding under a bed in their lodging house in the nearby Grassmarket. They had £7 between them, despite previously pleading to the Police that they had insufficient funds to leave the city. For their troubles their £7 was given to the victim in compensation and each got 60 days in the Calton Gaol, before being run out of town.
“The Thieves Den”, an engraving of an 18th century William Hogarth illustration.In October of that year, a most unusual “crime” took place in the tunnel – the transport of illicit cookies! A Mr Nottman had bought six cookies from Mr Robert Young, the licensee of the refreshment rooms at Canal Street Station and was observed to do this by PC Donald Bain. Nottman and his cookies boarded the train for Scotland Street Station and was followed by PC Bain, followed in fact all the way to his house in Bonnington where he intended to eat said cookies. The consumption of the cookies “off premises” was a clear violation of the Forbes Mackenzie Act under which premises were licensed.
Canal Street Station, with the refreshment rooms on the left and the ticket office on the right. In the background is the North Bridge and in the foreground is the Waverley Bridge. CC-by-NC National Galleries ScotlandThe Procurator Fiscal (in Scottish law, the Public Prosecutor), Mr Linton, was keen to enforce this particular act to the full extent of his powers and had Robert Young and Nottman sent before Sheriff Hallard to explain themselves. Despite a good defence by the solicitor Mr Rollo, WS, and good character references, the Sheriff said he had no alternative but to fine Young £1 5s for his crime of selling off-sales cookies (the alternative was 10 days imprisonment!); Nottman escaped with a ticking off. This was the third such conviction within a week in Edinburgh, on Friday October 7th, Bailie Cassels at the Police Court applied the same fine to David Doull of Princes Street for selling “a few penny tarts” and Mr Ridpath of the North British Railway refreshment room for selling “a number of muffins” for consumption off premises.
The northern portal of the tunnel at Scotland Street Station, with a recently-affixed plaque by the National Transport Trust. Photo © SelfThis was not the only time the railway found themselves on the receiving end of the Edinburgh Sheriff Court. On this day, November 29th, in 1861 the Edinburgh Evening Courant reported that Sheriff Jameson awarded 5 guineas damages to Mr Robert Riddel, a merchant of Blairpark, Ferry Road. The defendant in the case was the Edinburgh, Perth & Dundee Railway company which ran the Scotland Street tunnel. Riddel sued the Railway for their treatment of him on the 6th November when, after buying a 1st Class ticket from Bonnington to Edinburgh with friends, they found the carriages full so they sat instead in 2nd class. Riddel was annoyed that this sort of thing happened too often, and so at Scotland Street station he asked the ticket collector to refund him the difference. When the collector declined, Riddel kept hold of his ticket (he was meant to hand it in) and said he’d take the matter up instead at the Canal Street terminus with a higher authority. The ticket collector was having none of it, fetched the station master and the pair physically ejected Riddel from the train. He was “severely sprained in one of his hands” and detained against his will at Scotland Street before being refused a refund or onward transport. In finding for Riddel, the Sheriff set a precedent that passengers were entitled to a refund if they could not travel in the means which they had paid a ticket for due to a fault of the railway. Riddel let it be known that he was contributing his damages to the relief fund for the victims of the recent “Heave Awa Land” disaster.
Our last “crime” goes back to the previous year, a “laughable incident” that was widely reported in July 1858 under the tongue in cheek heading of “A Merchant’s Last ‘Stroke of Business’“. It involved an unfortunate but persistent woman of “prepossessing appearance“, one who ultimately had the last laugh. Our heroine arrived in Edinburgh from London in early July by steamer. Her purpose was marriage to “a commercial gentlemen belonging to this city“, their courtship having taken place by correspondence. She had with her all her possessions and with these boarded the train for Scotland Street where she was met by her lover.
Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard have a Brief Encounter out of a railway carriage window. Still from the 1945 film. Carlton-ITC/LFI CFD0079-Brief-S001“After many tender words were said” her fiancée went to retrieve her luggage from the van only to find it was empty. Both were astonished and after an hour of enquiries the man began to start having doubts about his bride and came to believe she was not whom she claimed to be. He imagined he was to marry a comfortably off woman, but now feared she had nothing to her name besides the clothes she stood up in. They had planned to be married then and there but he managed to put her off and “excuse himself” on account of his business arrangements. His jilted bride-to-be retreated back up the tunnel to the City to make more enquiries at Canal Street and find herself a hotel. From here, she sent word to her lover to please come and join her when he was done with work. But he never did. Distressed by her lack of spouse and lack of luggage, she returned to the station and was advised to take the train back down the tunnel to the steamer quay at Granton in case it was there. Imagine her surprise when at Scotland Street she saw all her belongings on the platform!
Disembarking from the carriage, she hurried up the stairs and down again to the other platform. To her horror she found not only her luggage but also her late fiancée, “waiting evidently to proceed on a long journey” and directing a porter to load her things onto a train for Leith! “He could make no answer when interrogated by the lady“, being “completely dumbfounded” at seeing her. In the most persuasive terms, she made him agree to “put off his journey” and marched him and her luggage back up the hill to Edinburgh and married him on the spot! His “business speculation over”, he instead was obliged to “retire to spend the honeymoon in the quiet seclusion of the country“.
A Victorian Couple on the Street, Girl’s Own Paper, 1883.The Scotland Street Tunnel soldiered on for a few years more but its new owners, the North British Railway, couldn’t wait to get rid of it when the acquired the Edinburgh, Perth & Dundee Railway. They built and opened a diversionary line and closed the tunnel on May 22nd 1868 with all traffic through it ceasing immediately. The tunnel spent the next 20 years doing nothing and was largely forgotten about, but popped up in the newspapers every now and again. Commander J. C. R. Johnston wrote to the Scotsman in April 1870 suggesting that it be used for horse carriages and carts, to bypass the gradients of the New Town, an idea still suggested for cycling and walking.
Letter to the Scotsman, 20th April 1870Ten years after closure Robert Kerr & Co., a whisky broker and blender in Leith, announced in the Scotsman that they intended to use the tunnel as a bonded warehouse for Wine and Spirits. Nothing came of this idea either. It would be almost another decade before a permanent use was found for the tunnel – from 1887 to 1902 the Scottish Mushroom Co. used it as an industrial-scale mushroom farm! Two tons of mushrooms a week could be harvested (when mould wasn’t killing them off).
“A Tunnel of Mushroom”, the only photo I have seen showing the old platform buildings at Scotland Street Station or an engine entering it. Photo courtesy Old Weird Scotland.The mushrooms grew on immense quantities of manure which was hauled straight into the tunnel by a steam engine on the old rails. Workers deep inside and working in the darkness with only the flicker of candles banked it up in huge piles as mushroom beds. The railway yard at Scotland Street was used as a manure transfer, storage and mixing depot. Horse manure was the main source – it came straight from Piershill Cavalry Barracks and also from the council’s manure depots where the “scaffies” deposited their collections.
“Removing Street Refuse”, London street sweepers at work in c. 1900 cleaning up horse manure. From Living London, vol. 2, 1902The manure was mixed when it was at the peak of fermentation, resulting in “a strong effluvia aris[ing]“. As you can imagine this did not go down too well with the residents of Scotland Street and their neighbours. The city’s energetic Public Health officer, Dr Henry Littlejohn, was also alert to the danger it posed and had the midden relocated to Warriston, 500 yards from human habitation. After these initial teething troubles, the Scottish Mushroom Co settled down to business and once again the tunnel faded from popular consciousness. And that might have been that for our story had it not been for a rather amusing and farcical occurrence in 1889.
In November of that year it was announced that Arthur James Balfour, the Irish Secretary, was due to attend a banquet dinner of Unionists and Tories in the Waverley Market on December 5th.
Arthur Balfour in 1890. Glasgow University collection, PD.Balfour was from the Maitland Balfour family of Whittingehame, East Lothian, and a distant relation of the Balfours of Pilrig and enjoyed significant local interest and popularity. The organisers could not find an establishment large enough to host the event and so had turned to the city’s covered fruit and vegetable market, with fully three quarters taken over for the banquet. The same could not be said of Balfour’s popularity back in Ireland where his ruthless actions against Irish Nationalists earned him the moniker “Bloody Balfour“. The authorities therefore feared the dinner at Waverley would be targeted by Nationalist reprisals and become “a modern Guy Fawkes“. They feared a bomb would be smuggled into the undercroft of the Waverley Market, or even worse, into the Scotland Street Tunnel itself. Such a device it was said “would extinguish Unionism and Toryism in Scotland perpetually” given “every member of any note” was to be present.
Waverley Market, 1885, by George Morham. The man in white trousers is a “scaffie” or street sweeper, the word comes from “scavenger”, which is the caption written above the title of the photo. © Edinburgh City LibrariesA significant police detail was therefore imported to provide protection for Balfour and the dinner, and set about combing the venue for signs of anything untoward. It is important to note that these were not local officers and so were naive about local matters. The police were able to obtain duplicate keys to the gates of the tunnel at its southern end, and entered to search. They neglected to tell the North British Railway what they were up to and set off down the dark tunnel with only a few lamps to guide them. The police didn’t understand what the funky piles along the tunnel were. They boldly pressed on down but their courage failed them when some of the men working the mushroom beds suddenly popped their heads up from behind the manure banks and enquired “Wha’s there?” The officers fled back up the tunnel and could not be convinced to return until it was explained to them what went on down there those days. A thorough search was made of the operation, but all that could be found was manure, mushrooms and the “spawn” used to sew the beds
The only illustration I know of that shows the Scotland Street Tunnel “in operation” dates from about 20 years after its closure, when it was being used as a mushroom farm. The proprietors laid a track some way into the tunnel to bring in the manure on which the mushrooms were grown. The scale is definitely subject to artistic licence. From “Mushrooms for the Million, 1884The Evening News reported that “the mushroom men were left laughing both at the timidity of their visitors and the fruitlessness of their visit”. Balfour’s dinner passed off uneventful with a banquet for 3,000, “1,000 ladies in the galleries” and seats for 8-10,000 public spectators.
“Graphic” newspaper, December 14th 1889You may wonder why I’m writing about the Scotland Street Tunnel yet again. Well I do have an ulterior motive, as my learned friend Leslie Hills just so happens to have a new book out now about two centuries of life above ground in Scotland Street. Most conveniently, it’s out in all good bookshops and is launched on Friday 1st December! “10 Scotland Street – the story of an Edinburgh home and its cast of booksellers, silk merchants, sailors, preachers, politicians, cholera and coincidence“. If you are reading this and you like my threads about Edinburgh and Leith history, then you probably like going down the sort of historical rabbit holes and off on tangents, so you’re sure to like Leslie’s book too as it will take you from a door on Scotland Street and around the world! I find a pleasing symmetry that Leslie’s book details what was going on just a few tens of feet above the tunnel at the same time as the shennanigans I have just been relating to you were going on tens of feet below the people in her book. Be there! I was very honoured to be able to contribute in a small way to this book and am only too pleased to commend it to you too.
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Forgotten Fatalities: the thread about the Granton railway disaster of 1860
Recent threads about the Scotland Street Tunnel and the Granton Breakwater inevitably involved me touching on the history of the railway that ran between these two places and brought to my attention a striking image of a forlorn-looking steam engine lying on its side on the Wardie foreshore. How this locomotive came to be here isn’t “in the books“, so of course I had to find out more.
The remains of the old railway embankment and sea wall at Lower Granton Road, where a bridge gave access beneath the tracks to Wardie Bay. CC-by-SA 3.0 Guinnog via WikimediaThe answer to this anomaly was that it was the result of an accident which took place on the Edinburgh, Perth & Dundee Railway‘s (EP&D) short section of track on the southern side of the Firth of Forth between Trinity Station and Granton Harbour. This event on the evening of Sunday 8th August 1860 would claim the lives of four people, injure six more and cruelly impact upon one family in particular.
The EP&D ran from its start at Canal Street Station (beneath and at right angles to what we now call Edinburgh Waverley), by gravity down the steep incline of the Scotland Street tunnel to a station of that name at its foot. Here, steam engines were attached to trains to haul them the few miles to Granton, via Trinity, or North Leith, via Bonnington. At Granton passengers could continue their journey onward across the Firth of Forth to Burntisland, by connecting paddle steamer. North of the Forth the railway carried on north to Perth and to Dundee (via a further steamer from the harbour at Tayport), explaining the full name of the company.
Route map of the Edinburgh, Perth & Dundee Railway, south of the Forth, 1860.On Sundays there were usually there were only two passenger trains a day each way to Granton. On the day of the accident the 4:30PM from Edinburgh ran the three mile trip hauled by engine No. 32. At the terminus the driver detached his engine and shunted the carriages back into the platform to where it would later form the 8:10PM return journey. This pattern only took place on the Sabbath; Monday to Saturday there were sixteen trains each way and a much quicker turnaround was required, undertaken in a rather frightening manner known as “fly shunting” whereby the carriages were “slipped” (detached) while the train was in motion and a well-timed throw of the points directed the engine one way and the freely coasting train the other into the platform. The guard at the rear in the brakevan was responsible for bringing the train to a controlled halt by which time the engine was already in the process of re-positioning itself so it could re-attach at the front of the train and haul it back the way it had come.
Granton Harbour and Pier, c. 1880, from Grant’s Old & New Edinburgh. The trains in the foreground are running on the railway embankment, Granton Middle Pier, where the station buildings are, lies beyond, with the steamers tied up alongside. Note the signalman standing behind the coal wagons with a flag raised.There was nowhere at Granton for engines to wait for any period of time and so on No. 32 now returned the way it had come to while away the next few hours in the engine shed at Scotland Street. As it departed it began to pick up speed and ascend the gradient up to the embankment along the foreshore and parallel to Lower Granton Road. It crossed the bridge over the footpath access to Wardie Bay and passed over first one and then a second set of points as it rounded a gentle bend in the route. This is where disaster struck: as it approached a second, smaller, bridge (which carried it over the Wardie Burn, marked nowadays by a break in the seawall) the left-hand leading wheel of the engine jumped the rails and the locomotive derailed.
The break in the sea wall at Lower Granton Road marks the spot where a bridge once carried the railway across the Wardie Burn. The embankment here was more substantial in the past. Photo © SelfIt continued to plough along the trackbed, derailed, for some 30 yards, ripping up tracks and sleepers and partially demolished the bridge. In doing so it was eventually tipped over the side when it hit the stone parapet. It fell a height of 9 feet down the embankment and then slithered 20 yards down the foreshore, coming to rest on its right hand side (not the left, as shown in the engraving, which may have either been reversed or show it during recovery).
Ordnance Survey 1849 Town Plan showing the route of the engine and its course during the accident. Reproduced with the permission of the National Library of ScotlandThere were six people on the footplate when the crash happened of whom four were killed instantly; driver David Mathieson, his 9 year old son William Mackenzie Mathieson (out for an exciting Sunday trip), his brother-in-law and neighbour John Mackenzie and Andrew Morgan, a railway signalman hitching a lift back to Scotland Street. The fireman, James Bowling, had a lucky but painful escape, jumping from the tender as it left the tracks. He broke an arm and dislocated a shoulder amongst other injuries, but lived to tell the tale. A railway porter who was also cadging a lift, George Dall, found himself swimming in the waters of Wardie Bay from where he was pulled, miraculously unhurt.
“The Recent Railway Accident at Granton Near Edinburgh, The Engine on the Beach”. London Illustrated NewsBlacksmith Thomas Gillies, his wife and two children had been sitting on the sea wall below the embankment, enjoying their day of rest, when the engine came crashing down from above, passing inches away from where they sat. All were badly scalded by escaping steam but survived. A horse cab was summoned to take the injured away to the Royal Infirmary. Sheriff Gordon, Procurator Fiscal Paterson and Chief Constable List were on the spot within the hour. They appointed engineers Mr Hawkins and Mr Jardine to investigate, while the officials of the railway company appointed their own civil engineer, Mr Lorimer, to also make enquiries. The Board of Trade appointed Captain (R.E.) Henry Whatley Tyler, to write a formal report.
None of the investigating engineers found any fault in the permanent way, engine No. 32 or with the manner in which it was driven by Mathieson. Tyler noted that although there were minor defects along the way none “ would have caused a steady engine thus to leave the line“. The type of engine – built locally in Leith by R. & W. Hawthorn – had been used without problem for 15 years and the only derailment it had suffered had been caused by a fractured rail. He did however note that the engine was particularly light at 11½ tons, that it had poor weight distribution and that there was a very short wheelbase of just 6 feet. This made it liable to oscillate at higher speeds and Tyler’s educated guess was that the engine had been travelling fast enough (“but not imprudently so“) to set up such an oscillating motion. Without the weight of a following train to restrain such gymnastics it was able to jump enough to leave the rails at a position where the gauge between the tracks was slightly too wide.
A North British Railway (successor to the Edinburgh, Perth & Dundee) 0-4-0 tender locomotive, No. 811, similar in overall size, configuration and styling to No. 32 which crashed at Granton.Margaret Stewart Mackenzie, the driver’s wife, lost not only her husband but also her brother and eldest son that day. She was left a widow with three children to support; a 7 year old girl and boys aged 3 and 1 years. She was also four months pregnant and would give birth to a daughter, Sarah Clapperton Mathieson, that December. The members of the Mathieson and Mackenzie family – who all lived next door to each other on Duncan (now Dundonald) Street – were also interred alongside eachother at the Old Calton Burying Ground.
Old Calton Burying Ground, register for the burials of John Mckenzie, David Mathieson and William Mckenzie MathiesonGiven the loss of her husband and brother the Mathieson widow and children found themselves without any financial support and a public subscription was set up under the coordination of the Lothian Road United Presbyterian Church for their benefit. In September the Scotsman reported that “a woman who assumes different names and represents herself to the the wife of an elder of Lothian Road U.P. Church” was wanted by the police for fraudulently soliciting for donations to the fund. The 1881 census shows that Margaret Mathieson stayed on at 10 Duncan Street and was living there with her 80 year old mother (Margaret Mackenzie), two sons (David, 24, a clerk and John ,21, a piano tuner) and her daughter (Sarah, 20, a dressmaker). She was working as a laundress. Sarah Clapperton Mathieson married 4 years later to Robert Fotheringham and they moved nearby to Airlie Place and then Deanpark Street, with at least 6 children born. Margaret would join them next door at Airlie Place, where she died in 1911 aged 81, after 51 years a widow.
Marion Mathieson was about 64 years old when her son David died and lost her son and a grandson that day. The Caledonian Mercury reported the agonising news that this was her fourth son to die; one was knocked down in the street near the family home, another fell from Salisbury Crags and a third had drowned off Aberdeen where he was serving an apprenticeship. She was by this time a widow, living in a cottage in the village of Corstorphine where she would die in 1871.
Of the other victim, Signalman Morgan, he was buried at Warriston Cemetery. A correspondent called Fair Play wrote to the Scotsman soon after to ask for subscriptions for the case of “Mrs Morgan, a highly respectable widow“, the mother of the deceased signalman. He had been “her only hope of subsistence since he was 12 years of age” and that the “good feeling of the public” had overlooked her plight.
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The thread about the building of the Scotland Street tunnel, a challenging – and occasionally fatal – engineering endeavour
This thread was originally written and published in September 2023.
In this thread from the other day I covered why Bellevue House in the centre of Drummond Place was demolished so as to allow the Scotland Street Tunnel to run directly beneath it. There’s a lot been written about the Tunnel: some of it’s even true! Despite a service life of just over 20 years and despite being defunct as a transport route for over 150 years, it still captivates the local imagination. The 1,052 yard long tunnel climbs from its entrance beneath Scotland Street to its terminus at the long gone “Canal Street Station” (beneath the Waverley Market) at a significant gradient of 1-in-27, directly beneath the axis of the New Town streets of Scotland Street, Dublin Street and St. Andrew Street so as not to undermine any buildings. But have you ever stopped to wonder how it was built?
An Edinburgh & Northern Railway map of c. 1849 with the short section south of the Forth, that ran under the New Town beyond Scotland Street, highlighted.The tunnel was planned by the Edinburgh, Leith & Newhaven Railway, which soon changed its name to the Edinburgh, Leith & Granton when the terminus on the Forth shifted to the latter harbour. Within a few years, this small railway was absorbed by the larger (but as-yet unbuilt) Edinburgh & Northern Railway in and changed its name one last time to the Edinburgh, Perth & Dundee in 1849 to better reflect the destinations it planned to connect.
When it came to construction, it wasn’t simply a case of starting at one end and digging towards the other, or even trying to meet in the middle from both. No, in fact they dug from both ends and also sunk 5 shafts along the route and dug out from all, at once. The process was to dig a narrow guide mine or drift , 6 x 6 feet wide and tall, linking all the shafts together and then widen that out into the 24 x 24 feet tunnel section and line it. The aerial view below shows the locations of these shafts, from the southern edge of St. Andrew Square (top right of image) to the southern edge of the Drummond Place garden (bottom left of image).
Google Earth image of Edinburgh’s northern New Town, overlaid with the route of the Scotland Street Tunnel and the shafts sunk along it during construction.The shafts are not spaced equidistant along the route but are concentrated in the central section between Drummond Place and St. Andrew Square. This is because of the underlying geology; the hardest rocks to dig through are located here. From the northern portal and under Scotland Street to the north of Drummond Place was easy going through sand, clay and gravel but beyond this they struck multiple bands of sandstone, freestone, hard freestone, very hard freestone, whinstone, hard sandstone and blaes (mudstone and shale). Beyond St. Andrew square, going got easier again as the freestone is interspersed with multiple bands of clay. An excellent geological section map is available on Canmore, but the terms of its licensing don’t allow me to reproduce it here. So I went one better and re-drew it and re-coloured it to make it clearer for you.
Section of the Scotland Street Tunnel showing geology, re-drawn from the engineer’s original. © SelfThe sources tell you the tunnel was constructed between 1844-47, but the newspapers confirm that the drift was actually started by the contractor James Mitchell (of Ross & Mitchell, who was father in law to James Gowans of Rockville) in February 1843 when the company was still known as the Edinburgh, Leith & Newhaven Railway. It was largely completed by February 1844, with the exception of the hardest section beneath Drummond Place and Abercromby Place. Much of the ground that was cut through here was water bearing and drainage was a problem before the whole drift was completed. A particular difficulty, which you can see in the above diagram, was the strata being cut through were thrusting upwards at an angle of around 20-30 degrees to the tunnel and so formed “walls” which held back the water. When the miners breached these, they could suddenly and unexpectedly release the water built up in the next layer. To counter this, the contractors bored out “jumper holes” (pilot holes) ahead of the excavations. When the jumper hole breached a geological wall and struck water, this could then be tapped off and drained away in a controlled manner before the whole drift advanced into the next strata.
19th century railway tunnel excavations – note this does not specifically show the Scotland Street Tunnel, but is one of a roughly equivalent scale and overall appearance © Science Photo Library Limited 2023This approach was quite successful, but disaster struck early on Friday 29th November 1844 when the nightshift workmen of No. 3 Shaft, digging away below the vicinity of Albany Place, bored out the jumper hole off the planned angle in error and breached a significant subterranean pocket of water which flooded the workings. This shouldn’t actually have been a surprise, the Thursday shift had noticed unusual springs of water in the workings and one of the miners had insisted to his mates that they were digging off of the intended route. Mr Mitchell, the contracting engineer, was informed, and made known his intention to go down with the morning shift at 6AM, to inspect the workings for himself. He asked the workmen to call him before they went down, however when the shift arrived they workmen called not on Mr Mitchell the engineer, but his brother Peter Mitchell, who was employed as a superintendent “but was not conversant in the business of mining“.
Instead of getting his brother, Peter Mitchell took it upon himself to do the inspection and went down with the gang. A short time later, a 14 year old boy – Jack – was being lowered into the shaft and was almost at the bottom when he heard “a loud roar of thunder” and yelled in a panic to be hauled back to the surface. Jack only just made it to the surface before a “huge wave came surging up the shaft” behind him and rose to a height of 80 feet, before “falling back again… almost as quickly as it had risen“. A second explosion of water occurred near the entrance to Broughton Markets out of No. 4 shaft, this one caused by the compression of the air in the tunnel by the flooding finding a route out and propelling the water before it. The basements in this area were flooded up to a depth of 4 feet. Once the initial torrents had subsided, the men at the surface found the drift and shafts were flooded and choked up with rocks, clay and debris from the onrush of water. The majority of the water however drained down and out of the tunnel mouth at Scotland Street “where it flooded the terminus of the completed portion of the railway to a considerable extent“: for a short period, the Canonmills Loch resurrected itself.
Canonmills by Mary Webster, 1836. This view looks from approximately where the tunnel portal is, across the Canonmills Haugh (meadow) towards the ancient loch.The men on the surface soon followed the receding water down the shaft to look for their mates. A ganger – Erskine – and a miner, Blair from Liberton – were soon found, “as might be expected, quite dead“. The body of another miner – Philips – would not be recovered until later. Tragically, he and Blair should not have even been there, their relief had overslept and were still putting their working clothes on on the surface when the disaster happened. Philips wife “resorted to the scene in the course of the forenoon and her wild shrieks and cries exhibited a spectacle to touch the coldest heart“. His body was found at around 3PM that day and that of Peter Mitchell, who should never have gone down the mine, was found at 4PM. Their bodies had been washed down the tunnel and were stopped beneath Drummond Place by a barrier of rock that had been left across the drift to help control the flow of water down the hill.
A public subscription was raised for the “families of all these poor men” who (with the exception of Mitchell the superintendent) would be “left destitute” by the loss of the breadwinner. The Edinburgh Evening Courant implored the directors of the railway to contribute generously.
The tunnel was finally completed and ready in mid-April 1847, when the company was known as the Edinburgh, Leith & Granton Railway. Captain Coddington, RE of the Railway Board inspected it and gave it the all clear on 10th April. It opened on Monday 17th May after “the most formidable difficulties“, on the same day as the Edinburgh & Glasgow Railway opened their extension from Haymarket to a (for now temporary) terminus underneath the new Waverley Bridge.
A watercolour painting by Joseph Ebsworth was completed a couple of months later, and from its vantage point of the Scott Monument we can clearly see a train emerging from the Scotland Street tunnel into Canal Street Station below Princes Street. There is a further thread here about that station, if you fancy reading some more on the Edinburgh, Leith & Granton Railway. The tunnel was too steep for the railway engines of the day when it was built, so trains were hauled up it on a rope by a static winding engine and ran downhill by gravity from Canal Street to Scotland Street, were a locomotive was attached for the onward journey to Granton or Leith.
“A watercolour showing an east view of Edinburgh taken from the Scott Monument”, Joseph Ebsworth, 1847, © Edinburgh Museums & GalleriesDespite the effort of its construction, the tunnel ended up having a very short life and was closed to traffic only 21 years after it opened. You can read more about the various crimes and illicit goings on that the tunnel attracted during this time in this thread. In this time it also gained a reputation for accidents and the newspapers record many – it proved particularly dangerous for the men employed to work it:
- In December 1853, Thomas Cleghorn, a railway guard, was killed instantly in the tunnel when he struck his head on the wall after leaning out of the luggage van in which he was riding.
- In August 1855, a carriage left unattended at the top of the tunnel and without its brakes applied, ran down the incline and collided with a passenger train, causing multiple injuries, some severe. The shunter, Thomas Wells, pleaded guilty to “culpable neglect of duty” and was imprisoned for 9 months.
- In September 1857, a goods train emerging from the foot of the tunnel at Scotland Street did not stop and ran into the back of a slow-moving coal train. The driver of the latter train jumped from his engine but forgot to shut off the steam and apply the brakes in his panic. His engine ran off towards Granton at a speed of 30mph and crashed into a train of carriages which was fortunately almost empty, demolishing the lot. The few passengers on board had already jumped clear when the runaway train was seen to be approaching. The Glasgow Sentinel newspaper recorded that at Scotland Street station the damage was limited to 2 barrels of whisky, which broke and their “mountain dew scattered on the ground“
- In October 1859, John Adam, a railway labourer, was fatally injured after being struck by a train coming out of the tunnel. He had gone to fetch a lamp to work with and found himself caught between the train and the tunnel wall.
- In October 1859 also, the haulage cable snapped at 930AM in the morning, preventing use of the tunnel for the whole day.
- In June 1863, James Samuel, a carriage driver employed to move coaches around Canal Street Station by horse traction, caught his foot in the mechanism of a turntable and was run over by a train coming out of the tunnel on the haulage rope. His injuries proved fatal.
- In July 1865, a train of 13 carriages, 2 trucks and 3 brake wagons was moving downhill when it separated into two portions. The forward portion moved ahead, but was then hit by the rear portion when it began to slow as the brakemen, in the pitch dark, could not even see that the train had separated. There were no serious injuries.
- In September 1867, a train ran away down the hill from Canal Street Station and overshot the station at Scotland Street at the foot of the tunnel, the brakemen – one on every third carriage – had to resort to applying the emergency “drags”, stout pieces of timber that were shoved into the spokes of the wheels to bring them to an immediate (and violent) stop. There were no serious injuries.
- In November 1867, William Reid, a brakeman, was killed when he jumped from his train at the foot of the tunnel and fell, being run over by his own vehicle.
Ultimately, the tunnel was never a practical transport solution. Beyond its lack of engine traction, the platforms at Canal Street station were far too short to allow longer trains, and were at 90 degrees to the larger Edinburgh & Glasgow and North British Railway station, making connections clumsy and impractical. In 1863 the line’s then owners, the North British Railway, gained powers to construct a new line diverting around the tunnel via Abbeyhill. Construction began in 1865 and it opened (and the tunnel closed) on May 22nd, 1868. It has been abandoned as a transport corridor ever since, but has seen use variously as a car garage, industrial mushroom farm, air raid shelter and emergency railway control room for at least some the intervening years. Every so often a plan is mooted to re-open either as a tram or metro route, or as a cycleway.
Closure notice of the tunnel, advertised in the Edinburgh Evening Courant, 21st May 1868Footnote. In February 2023, the Broughton Spurtle local newspaper broke the story that Dublin Street was subsiding – a “sinkhole” hole had appeared in the middle of the road. Coincidentally, this was right on top of No. 4 shaft, the one that flooded Broughton Markets in the 1844 disaster.
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"Unter den geleakten Daten befinden sich vollständige Patientenakten und Krankheitsgeschichten. [...] Sie gehen [...] davon aus, dass es über 20'000 Personen sind."
#EPD #EPDG #parlCH
https://www.inside-it.ch/gehackte-arztpraxen-jetzt-wird-das-ausmass-klar-20220406 -
Ein weiteres Millionengrab (dutzende Mio. CHF, zu Handen der Steuerzahler*innen) werden wir beim Elektronischen Patientendossier (#EPD) anrichten.
Das Desaster ist sternenklar absehbar. 🔥
#EHealth #EPDG #Krankenfiche #parlCH
https://twitter.com/CCC_CH/status/1174818086639345666 -
Nach der Five-Eyes-Pfeife ist entsprechend das E-Patientendossier entweder in zentralisiert überwachbar zu haben oder eben - abzuschiessen.
#E2EE #EPD #EPDG #Krankenfiche #parlCH
https://twitter.com/vecirex/status/1314594892887326724 -
Gerade im Bereich kritischer Infra - etwa dem E-Patientendossier - ist die @[email protected] ja involviert: hier drohen grosse Risiken, die das Vertrauen in das #EPD nachhaltig zerstören können.
Die Post📯 kann da schnell blöd dastehen.
#EPDG #KRITIS #parlCH
https://twitter.com/CCC_CH/status/1174818086639345666