Red for Danger : The Classic History of British Railway Disasters (Paperback)

from ponsonby

This is an absolute classic work on railway accidents, written by a highly knowledgeable author.

from EricCostello

Another book by one of the premier chroniclers of Victorian industrialism, canal-traveling, railroads, and industrial archaeology. This one focuses specifically, as the title notes, on railway disasters, and Rolt does a good job of grouping the incidents together by type, and explaining what went...

from EricCostello

Very much a classic history, indeed. Rolt, a master at describing Victorian technology, goes through the various kinds of railroad disasters of the early (and not so early) decades of railroading, breaking them into logical categories and explaining not only what went wrong, but how technology wa...

from ponsonby

This is an absolute classic work on railway accidents, written by a highly knowledgeable author.

from EricCostello

Another book by one of the premier chroniclers of Victorian industrialism, canal-traveling, railroads, and industrial archaeology. This one focuses specifically, as the title notes, on railway disasters, and Rolt does a good job of grouping the incidents together by type, and explaining what went...