Railway Accidents by Greg Morse

Railway Accidents by Greg Morse

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Summary

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.

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Railway Accidents by Greg Morse

Though trains are one of the safest forms of transport, train accidents always make headline news. Their history is, in many ways, the history of technological development and learning. Early incidents like the felling of William Huskisson MP by Stephenson's Rocket in 1830 led to the reporting systems we know today, while within 50 years safer signalling and braking methods had been made mandatory. Greg Morse charts these changes, taking the story on through the twentieth century, which saw advances in track design and train protection systems, but which ended with a stark reminder that accidents always have more than one cause.
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.
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ISBN 13 9780747813712
ISBN 10 074781371X
Title Railway Accidents
Author Greg Morse
Series Shire Library
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Year published 2014-10-10
Number of pages 72
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