ACCIDENTS ON RAILWAYS, 1948
In all, there were 1293 train accidents on British Railways in 1948. Causes were listed as: failure of the human element, 639, defective apparatus, 188, other (track obstructions, passenger or other person misconduct), 466. The report, from which this article was taken, contains a number of summarized tables which cover the past 34 years and gives the total casualties in all movement on rail, with information about traffic carried, staff employed, etc.
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Corporate Authors:
Temple Press Limited
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Authors:
- Mount, A
- Publication Date: 1949-7-1
Media Info
- Pagination: p. 22
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Serial:
- RAILWAY GAZETTE
- Volume: 91
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Fatalities; Passengers; Personnel; Railroads; Safety; Technology; Traffic crashes
- Geographic Terms: United Kingdom
- Old TRIS Terms: Passenger deaths
- Subject Areas: Passenger Transportation; Railroads; Safety and Human Factors; Society;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00037885
- Record Type: Publication
- Files: TRIS
- Created Date: Dec 4 1994 12:00AM