Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electrical engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 442
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American Electrician
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electrical engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 442
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The Signal Engineer
Author: Sessional Papers
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of CommonsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 986
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Report
Author: Commonwealth Shipping CommitteePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Shipping
Languages : en
Pages : 898
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Railway Signal Engineering (mechanical)
Author: Leonard P. LewisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
The Quintinshill Conspiracy
Author: Adrian SearlePublisher: Wharncliffe
ISBN: 1781590990
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
It was the railway's Titanic. A horrific crash involving five trains in which 230 died and 246 were injured, it remains the worst disaster in the long history of Britain's rail network.??The location was the isolated signal box at Quintinshill, on the Anglo-Scottish border near Gretna; the date, 22 May 1915. Amongst the dead and injured were women and children but most of the casualties were Scottish soldiers on their way to fight in the Gallipoli campaign. Territorials setting off for war on a distant battlefield were to die, not in battle, but on home soil victims, it was said, of serious incompetence and a shoddy regard for procedure in the signal box, resulting in two signalmen being sent to prison. Startling new evidence reveals that the failures which led to the disaster were far more complex and wide-reaching than signalling negligence. Using previously undisclosed documents, the authors have been able to access official records from the time and have uncovered a?highly shocking and controversial truth behind what actually happened at Quintinshill and the extraordinary attempts to hide the truth.??As featured in Dumfries & Galloway Life magazine, January 2014.
The Signal-Man Illustrated
Author: Charles DickensPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
"The Signal-Man" is a horror/mystery story by Charles Dickens, first published as part of the Mugby Junction collection in the 1866 Christmas edition of All the Year Round.The railway signal-man of the title tells the narrator of an apparition that has been haunting him. Each spectral appearance precedes a tragic event on the railway on which the signalman works. The signalman's work is at a signal-box in a deep cutting near a tunnel entrance on a lonely stretch of the railway line, and he controls the movements of passing trains. When there is danger, his fellow signalmen alert him by telegraph and alarms. Three times, he receives phantom warnings of danger when his bell rings in a fashion that only he can hear. Each warning is followed by the appearance of the specter, and then by a terrible accident.The first accident involves a terrible collision between two trains in the tunnel. Dickens may have based this incident on the Clayton Tunnel crash[1] that occurred in 1861, five years before he wrote the story. Readers in 1866 would have been familiar with this major disaster. The second warning involves the mysterious death of a young woman on a passing train. The final warning is a premonition of the signalman's own death"
Parliamentary Papers
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of CommonsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bills, Legislative
Languages : en
Pages : 770
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Returns of Accidents and Casualties
Author: Great Britain. Ministry of TransportPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 176
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Bulletin [English Ed] [New Series]
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Author: International Railway Congress AssociationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1078
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