Britain's Railway Disasters

Author: Michael Foley
Publisher: Wharncliffe
ISBN: 1473831865
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 402

Book Description
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

The Quintinshill Conspiracy

Author: Jack Richards
Publisher: Wharncliffe
ISBN: 1473831806
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 522

Book Description
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.

Britain's Railway Disasters

Author: Michael Foley
Publisher: Wharncliffe
ISBN: 1781593795
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 250

Book Description
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

Red for Danger

Author: L. T. C. Rolt
Publisher: History Press
ISBN: 9780752451060
Category : Railroad accidents
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
A classic work that must be included in the library of any railway enthusiast

British Railway Disasters

Author: Robin Jones
Publisher: Gresley
ISBN: 1911658719
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 167

Book Description
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.

Traumatic Pasts

Author: Mark S. Micale
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521583659
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 337

Book Description
The essays in this book trace the origins of ongoing heated debates regarding trauma.

Railway Milestones and Millstones

Author: Stanley Hall
Publisher: Ian Allan Publishing
ISBN: 9780711031104
Category : Locomotives
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
"Throughout the history of Britain's railways there have been events, individuals and designs that can be regarded as conspicuous successes. The milestone and millstones recorded in this book range in time from the earliest years of railways in Britain to the industry, as it exists in the first decade of the 21st century."--Publisher's description.

British Railway Disasters

Author: Robin Jones
Publisher: Mortons Books
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 278

Off the Rails

Author: Andrew Murray
Publisher: Verso
ISBN: 9781859844960
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 228

Book Description
A damning indictment of the chaos on the British railways.

Ohio Train Disasters

Author: Jane Ann Turzillo
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1625847424
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 151

Book Description
In nearly a century of heavy rail travel in Ohio, a dozen train accidents stand out as the most horrific. In the bitter cold, just after Christmas 1876, eleven cars plunged seventy-five feet into the frigid water below. The stoves burst into flames, burning to death all who were not killed by the fall. Fires cut short the lives of forty-three people in the head-on Doodlebug collision in Cuyahoga Falls in 1940 and eleven people in a train wreck near Dresden in 1912. Author Jane Ann Turzillo unearths these red-hot stories of ill-fated passengers, heroic trainmen and the wrecking crews who faced death and destruction on Ohio's rails.