Excerpt from Safe Railway Working: Popular Treatise on Railway Accidents Their Cause and Prevention; With a Description of Modern Appliances and Systems Since the first publication of this volume, six years ago, several events of the first importance in relation to its subject have occurred - for instance, the serious accident at Hexthorpe the terrible collision at Armagh (the most serious which has ever happened on British railways) the collision at Carlisle; and the lamentable disaster near Thirsk, two months ago. And since 1887, also, by the Railway Regulation Act of 1889, the use of many of the safeguards mentioned or sug gested by the Author has been made compulsory. 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.