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Author : L. T. C. Rolt
Publisher : History Press
ISBN 13 : 9780752451060
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (51 download)
Download or read book Red for Danger written by L. T. C. Rolt and published by History Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic work that must be included in the library of any railway enthusiast
Author : Michael Foley
Publisher : Wharncliffe
ISBN 13 : 1473831865
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)
Download or read book Britain's Railway Disasters written by Michael Foley and published by Wharncliffe. This book was released on 2014-01-15 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Passengers on the early railways took their lives in their hands every time they got on board a train. It was so dangerous that they could buy an insurance policy with their ticket. There seemed to be an acceptance that the level danger was tolerable in return for the speed of travel that was now available to them.British Railway Disasters looks at the most serious railway accidents from the origins of the development of the train up to the present day. Seriousness is judged on the number of those who died. Information gleaned from various newspaper reports is compared with official reports on the accidents.The book will appeal to all those with a fascination for rail transport as well as those with a love of history.Michael Foley examines the social context of how injuries and deaths on the railways were seen in the early days, as well as how claims in the courts became more common, leading to a series of medical investigations as to how travelling and crashing at high speed affected the human body
Author : Robin Jones
Publisher : Mortons Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book British Railway Disasters written by Robin Jones and published by Mortons Books. This book was released on 2019-12-01 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of how Britain’s railway disasters, horrific though they may be, change the network for the better through the crucial lessons that are learned. It starts with fatalities on early mining tramways before the dawn of the steam age and takes the story up to the present day. While many of Britain’s worst tragedies are covered in depth, such as Quintinshill in 1915 and Harrow & Wealdstone in 1952, the book also looks at others that had resounding consequences for safety.
Author : Robin Jones
Publisher : Gresley
ISBN 13 : 1911658719
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (116 download)
Download or read book British Railway Disasters written by Robin Jones and published by Gresley. This book was released on 2020-02-08 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of how Britain’s railway disasters, horrific though they may be, change the network for the better through the crucial lessons that are learned. It starts with fatalities on early mining tramways before the dawn of the steam age and takes the story up to the present day. While many of Britain’s worst tragedies are covered in depth, such as Quintinshill in 1915 and Harrow & Wealdstone in 1952, the book also looks at others that had resounding consequences for safety.
Author : H. Raynar Wilson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)
Download or read book The Safety of British Railways written by H. Raynar Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Oswald Stevens Nock
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Historic Railway Disasters written by Oswald Stevens Nock and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jack Richards
Publisher : Wharncliffe
ISBN 13 : 1473831806
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)
Download or read book The Quintinshill Conspiracy written by Jack Richards and published by Wharncliffe. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was the railway's Titanic. A horrific crash involving five trains in which 230 died and 246 were injured, it remains the worst disaster in the long history of Britain's rail network.The location was the isolated signal box at Quintinshill, on the Anglo-Scottish border near Gretna; the date, 22 May 1915. Amongst the dead and injured were women and children but most of the casualties were Scottish soldiers on their way to fight in the Gallipoli campaign. Territorials setting off for war on a distant battlefield were to die, not in battle, but on home soil victims, it was said, of serious incompetence and a shoddy regard for procedure in the signal box, resulting in two signalmen being sent to prison. Startling new evidence reveals that the failures which led to the disaster were far more complex and wide-reaching than signalling negligence. Using previously undisclosed documents, the authors have been able to access official records from the time and have uncovered ahighly shocking and controversial truth behind what actually happened at Quintinshill and the extraordinary attempts to hide the truth.As featured in Dumfries & Galloway Life magazine, January 2014.
Author : Nicholas Faith
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780752219875
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (198 download)
Download or read book Derail written by Nicholas Faith and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2001 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Derail is an analysis of the most dramatic, bizarre and terrifying rail accidents over the past 150 years. It asks what lessons have been learned from past disasters and what steps remain to be taken.
Author : L. T. C. Rolt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Red for Danger written by L. T. C. Rolt and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Simon Fowler
Publisher : Wharncliffe
ISBN 13 : 1473829852
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)
Download or read book Railway Disasters written by Simon Fowler and published by Wharncliffe. This book was released on 2013-09-18 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: British railways are one of the safest ways of travelling. That they are so is the result of painful lessons learnt over many decades, for there have been many hundreds of railway disasters.This book looks at some of the most famous as well as some that have been all but forgotten, matching graphic illustrations with eyewitness accounts of people who were there and the confidential reports of the accident investigators who worked out what had gone wrong.The book explores the reasons why accidents happen. Some are due to the carelessness of staff, others due to equipment failure or poor signalling. Yet others still baffle the experts. Simon Fowler is a long-standing Pen & Sword author having written many books on family and military history. He is a also a professional researcher and tutor.
Author : Ian Allan Publishing
Publisher : Specialist Marketing International
ISBN 13 : 9780711024700
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (247 download)
Download or read book British Railway Disasters written by Ian Allan Publishing and published by Specialist Marketing International. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While rail travel is among the safest forms of transport, major incidents have occurred throughout the history of railway travel in Britain. This book looks at the causes of these incidents and the safety changes which resulted from them.
Author : L. T. C. Rolt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Red for Danger written by L. T. C. Rolt and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The result of Rolt's careful investigation and study of verbatim reports and findings by H.M. Inspectorate of Railways. It covers major accidents from the 19th and 20th century, and reveals the evolution of safety devices and methods which came to make the British railway carriage one of the safest ways of transport in the world.
Author : H. Raynar Wilson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781332192595
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)
Download or read book The Safety of British Railways; Or Railway Accidents written by H. Raynar Wilson and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Safety of British Railways; Or Railway Accidents: How Caused and How Prevented The Author was led, a few months ago, by an article in a technical journal, to look into the causes of the railway accidents of thirty years or so ago and to compare them with those of the present day. The question of safety on British railways is one of great importance as well as of considerable interest, and this was in the Author's mind when he commenced investigations. We were then passing through anxious times in that direction as the annual report of the Board of Trade showed that the year 1906 was the worst since 1874 as to casualties to passengers in train accidents. The perusal of these pages will show that the accidents of a former generation were mostly due to a weakness of the Machine and not so much to errors of the Man. The Machine is now perfected, and these pages will, without doubt, force the reader to the conclusion that present day accidents are due to failures of the Man. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Michael Foley
Publisher : Wharncliffe
ISBN 13 : 1781593795
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (815 download)
Download or read book Britain's Railway Disasters written by Michael Foley and published by Wharncliffe. This book was released on 2014-01-15 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Passengers on the early railways took their lives in their hands every time they got on board a train. It was so dangerous that they could buy an insurance policy with their ticket. There seemed to be an acceptance that the level danger was tolerable in return for the speed of travel that was now available to them.??British Railway Disasters looks at the most serious railway accidents from the origins of the development of the train up to the present day. Seriousness is judged on the number of those who died. Information gleaned from various newspaper reports is compared with official reports on the accidents.??The book will appeal to all those with a fascination for rail transport as well as those with a love of history.??Michael Foley examines the social context of how injuries and deaths on the railways were seen in the early days, as well as how claims in the courts became more common, leading to a series of medical investigations as to how travelling and crashing at high speed affected the human body
Author : Jonathan Mountfort
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445678667
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)
Download or read book British Railway Accidents and Incidents in Maps and Pictures written by Jonathan Mountfort and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2018-07-15 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jonathan Mountfort looks at some of the notable and disastrous accidents and incidents that have taken place in the history of the British rail network.
Author : Peter W. B. Semmens
Publisher : Haynes Publications
ISBN 13 : 9781852603236
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Railway Disasters of the World written by Peter W. B. Semmens and published by Haynes Publications. This book was released on 1994 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Railway DisasterSemmens
Author : Robert RITCHIE (Civil Engineer.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Railways; their rise, progress and construction, with remarks on railway accidents and proposals for their prevention written by Robert RITCHIE (Civil Engineer.) and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
