Historic Railway Disasters

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 19. Recent Driver's Errors: Eltham (Well Hall), Nuneaton, Colwich and Wembley 20. Defects On Locomotives 21. The Inexplicable Moorgate Disaster 22. Errors In The Wiring: Charing Cross and Farnley 23. Derailments At High Speed: Bushey, Northallerton and Ulleskelf 24. When Vigilance Fails 25. Faults In Fishplates 26. Fire! 27. Livestock On The Line Appendix: A Note on the Railway Inspectorate Index