Railway Accidents
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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; 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...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:074781371X
ISBN13:9780747813712
Release Date:October 2014
Publisher:Shire Publications
Length:72 Pages
Weight:0.35 lbs.
Dimensions:0.3" x 5.8" x 8.1"
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