Railway accidents

[Jerry1237]

Waterloo would be a wonderful response to many exam questions. It was, after all, an operational irregularity whilst running an operational railway in parallel to "works". Until the whys and wherefores are understood, using it as an answer wrt an accident would be not ideal. Root causes and not fully understood, therefore subject to assumption and guesswork. It will certainly be interesting to understand what went wrong and why but it does emphasise the safeguards necessary for stage works especially with frequent hand-backs often when human factors (fatigue, dark) come into effect.

Rolt's work is certainly a definitive tome albeit just an overview of a few incidents and accidents. Reminds us of what affect we each have on others!