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Britain's Railway Disasters (Illustrated)
by Robin Jones
Mortons Media Group | May 2016 | ISBN: 190912866X | 133 Pages | PDF | 50.3 mb

https://www.amazon.com/Brita...ed-Robin-ebook/dp/B01FWGGUBO

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.


About the Author
Robin Jones is a widely published and highly respected journalist who specialises in heritage transportation and industrial archaeology subjects. Robin contributes news and feature material on a regular basis across a wide range of railway titles and has written many books on Britain’s railway history. He is currently the editor of Heritage Railway Magazine.

CONTENTS
4 INTRODUCTION
8 1830 LIVERPOOL & MANCHESTER: The first tragedies
15 1833 BAGWORTH: The first whistles?
16 1865 STAPLEHURST: Heroism of Our Mutual Friend
18 1868 ABERGELE: Inferno of the Irish Mail
22 1874 THORPE: Why Edward Tyer invented the tablet system
24 1876 ABBOTS RIPTON: Double collision at Abbots Ripton
30 1879 TAY BRIDGE: The railway Titanic
38 1887 HEXTHORPE: The worst day at the races
40 1889 ARMAGH: No braking the runaway train
44 1890, 1939 AND 1978 NORTON FITZWARREN: Somerset’s triple accident blackspot
48 1896 PRESTON: An end to speed
54 1896 SNOWDON: Fatality on the first day
56 1906 SALISBURY: One fast curve too many
58 1915 QUINTINSHILL: Britain’s worst rail disaster
70 1945 BOURNE END: Blinded by the light
73 1947 GOSWICK: Carnage on the ‘Flying Scotsman’
74 1952 HARROW & WEALDSTONE: Britain’s worst peacetime rail disaster
82 1955 SUTTON COLDFIELD: Sharp curve taken at double speed
84 1957 LEWISHAM: Carnage in the London fog
87 1967 THIRSK: Derailed cement wagon wrecks a prototype
88 1967 HITHER GREEN: Bonfire night horror at Hither Green
92 1975 MOORGATE: The Moorgate mystery
94 1975 NUNEATON: Nightmare at Nuneaton
96 1988 CLAPHAM JUNCTION: The wrong kind of wire
100 1994 COWDEN: So who was driving?
101 1996 RICKERSCOTE: Questions over wagon maintenance
102 1997 SOUTHALL: Britain’s train safety systems condemned
106 1999 LADBROKE GROVE: The signal that could not be seen
112 2000 HATFIELD: Cracked rail killer
114 2001 GREAT HECK: 10 people die – and the railway was blameless
120 2002 POTTERS BAR: They waited nine years for justice
124 2004 UFTON NERVET: A long wait for a bridge
128 2004 TEBAY: ‘Greed’ set off a runaway train
129 2007 GRAYRIGG: Potters Bar crash ‘repeated’ in Cumbria

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