British Railway Accidents and Incidents in Maps and Pictures
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British Railway Accidents and Incidents in Maps and Pictures

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British Railway Accidents and Incidents in Maps and Pictures

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British Railway Accidents and Incidents in Maps and Pictures describes some of the most interesting incidents that have occurred on Britain's railways over the last 200 years. From the earliest misfortune – the sad fate of William Huskisson MP, mown down in 1830 at the opening ceremony of the Liverpool & Manchester Railway by that most famous of engines, Stephenson's Rocket – this book gives the reader an absorbing ride through time, charting minor incidents along with major calamities. Original photographs from postcards portray vividly the scenes just as they occurred and period railway maps pinpoint the exact locations where they happened.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Parkside 1830 – Opening Day of the Liverpool & Manchester Railway and the Accident-Prone MP
  6. Dee Bridge 1847 – The Most Famous Engineer’s Most Infamous Failure
  7. Wolverton 1850 – The Noisy Engine Gains its Revenge
  8. The First Water Troughs 1860 – Replenishing the Tender on the Move
  9. Abergele 1868 – The Irish Mail Meets the Runaway ‘Bomb’
  10. Snowdon 1896 – Into the Ravine on Opening Day
  11. Ramsgate 1905 – The Tram in the Harbour
  12. Bletchley 1906 – Waggons off the Road
  13. Salisbury 1906 – The Destruction of the Night Boat Train
  14. Newport Ebbw Junction 1907 – The Signal to Disaster
  15. Shrewsbury 1907 – If Red Signals Don’t Stop the Train, the Sharp Curve Will
  16. Glasgow 1908 – The Tramway Supervisor’s ‘Good Idea’ – And How it Killed his Driver
  17. Bedford Flood 1908 – Railway Turns to River
  18. Barnstaple 1910 – Struck Down by his Own Crossing Gates on the Narrow Gauge L&B
  19. Hawes Junction 1910 – The Engines the Signalman Forgot
  20. Hunstanton 1912 – The Train that Forgot to Stop
  21. Quintinshill 1915 – The Terrible Inferno and the Soldiers Who Never Went to War
  22. Abermule 1921 – How Many Small Mistakes Does it Take to Make One Big Disaster?
  23. Hunton Bridge 1922 – The Train That Fell Off the Bridge
  24. Chichester 1920s – Delivery of a Colonel Stephens Railmotor
  25. Snapper Halt 1924 – Off the Rails on the L&B
  26. Scarborough 1925 – The Tram in the Ballroom
  27. Great Orme Tramway 1932 – The Snapped Coupling and the Disabled Emergency Brake
  28. Hopton Incline 1937 – Flat Out Round the Bend to Try and Make it Up the Hill
  29. Sugarloaf Tunnel 1949 – The Loose Brick
  30. Elm Bridge 1954 – The Lorry and the Tram Engine
  31. Severn Railway Bridge 1960 – The Exploding Barges
  32. Connington South 1967 – The Mischievous Signalman and the Terrible Consequences
  33. Ness Bridge 1989 – The Angry River in Full Spate
  34. Acknowledgements
  35. Bibliography