Railway Accidents

Greg Morse (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

72 Seiten

2014
Shire Publications (Verlag)
978-0-7478-1371-2 (ISBN)

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Britain's rail network is now among the safest in the world, but the journey that brought it to that point has been long and eventful. Early incidents like the felling of William Huskisson MP by Stephenson's Rocket (1830) showed how new ideas could bring new dangers.

Britain’s rail network is now among the safest in the world, but the journey that brought it to that point has been long and eventful. Early incidents like the felling of William Huskisson MP by Stephenson’s Rocket (1830) showed how new ideas could bring new dangers; yet from disaster came new safety measures, and within fifty years better signalling and braking methods had been made mandatory. The twentieth century saw accident repeatedly lead to action and further advances in rolling stock, track design and train protection systems. Greg Morse charts these changes through the events that helped to prompt them, including the Armagh collision (1889) and the Harrow & Wealdstone disaster (1952). He ends with a railway approaching a new ‘golden age’ in the 1980s – yet with the tragedy at Clapham Junction (1988) offering a solemn reminder against complacency.

Greg Morse was instilled with a love of trains at an early age and has written many articles on railway history. He is privileged to work within the industry he loves as an Operational Safety Specialist.

Introduction / Early Days / An Inspector Calls / From Time to Space / Bridges and Brakes / Human Errors / Taking Control / Nationalisation, Modernisation and the Threat of Fog / New Railway, New Danger? / Return to Clapham / Further Reading / Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	10.10.2014
Reihe/Serie	Shire Library
Zusatzinfo	53 b/w; 15 col
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	149 x 210 mm
Gewicht	162 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Modellbau
	Natur / Technik ► Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe ► Schienenfahrzeuge
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10	0-7478-1371-X / 074781371X
ISBN-13	978-0-7478-1371-2 / 9780747813712
Zustand	Neuware