Railway Blunders

From the very earliest days of railway development, there have been planning, design, construction, management, equipment and technological disasters. Many of these disasters stem from an ignorance of railroading technology, an overzealous drive to put profits ahead of safety and misguided legislative laws and regulations which ultimately choke rather than free up railway enterprise. The author provides numerous and thoroughly researched examples of the worst of railway blunders including: Parliamentary Blunders, the Tay Bridge collapse, Clash of Personalities, Railways Plundered 1940-1945, Nationalisation, the Heathrow Tunnel engineering fiasco, Construction Calamities and even provides a brief look at the invention of locomotives in order to correct the historic impression that George Stephenson was the innovator of the locomotive design. The author suggests from the earliest days to the present, the situation has probably not changed all that much and in spite of everything against railways, somehow they work and continue to be a major link in the transportation infrastructure.

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• Corporate Authors:

  Ian Allan Publishing, Limited

  Riverdene Business Park, Riverdene Industrial Estate
  Molesey Road
  Walton-on-Tham, Surrey  United Kingdom  KT12 4RG
• Authors:
  • Vaughn, Adrian
• Publication Date: 2003

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Photos;
• Pagination: 160p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: 19th century; 20th century; Construction; Design; Disasters; Engineering; History; Laws; Politics; Railroads
• Geographic Terms: United Kingdom
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Construction; Design; History; Law; Railroads;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01033001
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 0711028362
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Sep 13 2006 7:55AM