Robert Ritchie
Published: 2018-01-23
Total Pages: 488
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Excerpt from Railways: Their Rise, Progress, and Construction, With Remarks on Railway Accidents, and Proposals for Their Prevention Accidents from Mismanagement, or the Railway Ad ministration, and from Negligence Accidents from Collision Accidents from one Train Running into another from overtaking it, or the like Accidents from excessive Speed Accidents from Negligence Accidents from Railway Construction, or from Defect of any Part of the Working Machinery, and from Imperfection of the Engine Accidents from Defects of the Engine Accidents from Boiler Imperfections Accidents from Imperfections of the Rails and Railway Curves Accidents from Imperfect Fences Accidents from Imperfect Earth Works and Bridges Accidents from Carriage Imperfections Accidents from Fire Observations on Railway Carriages Proposals for Increase of Safety in Railway Travelling and Improvement of the Railway System Conclusion. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.