Historic Railway Disasters
| Book | Historic Railway Disasters |
| Publisher | Ian Allan Ltd |
| Printed by | R.J. Acford Ltd |
| Format | Hardback |
| Language | English |
| Location | Shepperton, Surrey, UK |
| This Edition Published | 1969 |
| Pages / Font | 206 pages |
| SBN | 71100190X |
| Chapters | Contents Preface Preface to the Second Edition 1. The Elements of Disaster 2. Four Mid-Victorian Tragedies 3. Abbots Ripton 4. The Battle of the Brakes: the Casualty List 5. The Armagh Runaway Train Collision 6. Speed on Curves: the derailments at Preston, Salisbury, Grantham and Shrewsbury 7. Disasters on the Settle and Carlisle Line 8. Quintinshill 9. The Abermule head-on collision 10. The Sevenoaks derailment 11. Running through Signals: three cases for A.T.C. 12. Accidents on the Great Western 13. Blunders with 'Lock and Block' 14. Harbreadth Escapes 15. Two B.R. Catastrophes 16. The Didcot High-Speed Derailment 17. Hither Green, December, 1967 - A Broken Rail 18. Hixon Level Crossing, January 1968 Appendix: A Note on the Railway Inspectorate Index |
| Notes | Second edition Submission based on copy missing dust jacket |
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