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.

• Corporate Authors:

  Temple Press Limited

  161-166 Fleet Street
  Longon EC4,   England 
• Authors:
  • Mount, A
• Publication Date: 1949-7-1

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 22
• 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