Britains Railway Disasters

Author : Michael Foley
Publisher : Wharncliffe
ISBN 13 : 1473831865
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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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)

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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 : Adrian Searle
Publisher : Wharncliffe
ISBN 13 : 1781590990
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Quintinshill Conspiracy written by Adrian Searle and published by Wharncliffe. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 317 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 a?highly 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 : L. T. C. Rolt
Publisher : History Press
ISBN 13 : 9780752451060
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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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 : Rosa Matheson
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750957018
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Death, Dynamite & Disaster written by Rosa Matheson and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2014-05-05 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A safe mode of transport today, the railways were far from vehicles of sleepy commute when they first came into service; indeed, accidents were commonplace and sometimes were a result of something far more sinister. In this fresh approach to railway history, Rosa Matheson explores the grim and grisly railway past. These horrible happenings include memorable disasters and accidents, the lack of burial grounds for London’s dead, leading to the ‘Necropolis Railway’, the gruesome necessity of digging up the dead to accommodate the railways and how the discovery of dynamite gave rise to the ‘Dynamite Wars’ on the London Underground in the 1880s and 1890s. Join Rosa as she treads carefully through the fascinating gruesome history of Britain’s railways.

Author : Oswald Stevens Nock
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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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 : Michael Foley
Publisher : Wharncliffe
ISBN 13 : 1781593795
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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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 : Nicholas Faith
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780752219875
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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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 : Ian Allan Publishing
Publisher : Specialist Marketing International
ISBN 13 : 9780711024700
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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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 : Mark S. Micale
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521583659
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Traumatic Pasts written by Mark S. Micale and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-09-04 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this book trace the origins of ongoing heated debates regarding trauma.