The Hixon Railway disaster : the inside story /

This is the shocking true story behind the botched introduction of Automatic Half-Barrier level-crossings into Britain. January 1968 saw the convening of the first Parliamentary Court of Inquiry into a railway accident in Britain since the Tay Bridge Disaster nearly a century before. Why was this�...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Westwood, Richard (Richard John)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Havertown : Pen & Sword Books Limited, 2017.
Temas:
Railroad accidents > England > Staffordshire > History.
Railroad accidents > History.
Chemins de fer > Accidents > Histoire.
Chemins de fer > Accidents > Angleterre > Staffordshire > Histoire.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Infrastructure.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Railroad accidents.
England > Staffordshire.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Ch. 1 Ỳou can't park that there, mate!'
  • ch. 2 legal stuff and the Men from The Ministry
  • ch. 3 Murphy's Law, or the Engineer's Touchstone
  • ch. 4 Ẁell the lorry driver and his mate took off in high dudgeon, and we went home'
  • ch. 5 Chopping Block
  • ch. 6 Hixon Inquiry gets under way and the Railway Inspectorate has a nasty shock
  • ch. 7 Tragedy at Trent Road level-crossing, Beckingham, Lincolnshire: Tuesday, 16 April 1968
  • ch. 8 mind of a Judge (and the cost of copper wire)
  • ch. 9 Tommy Cromwell: Tuesday, 5 December 1967
  • ch. 10 dogs that didn't bark.

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