Terror in the tunnels : Britain's dangerous railway history /

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Author / Creator:Matheson, Rosa, author.
Imprint:Stroud : History Press, 2017.
Description:1 online resource
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12646836
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ISBN:9780750983099
0750983094
9780750969963
0750969962
Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed May 25, 2017).
Summary:In this fascinating history, Rosa Matheson explores the grim past of Britain's well-known and lesser-known railway tunnel disasters, and how their 'terror' led to a safer future.
Other form:Print version: Matheson, Rosa. Terror in the tunnels. Stroud : History Press, 2017 0750969962 9780750969963

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505 0 |a Intro -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Accidents -- Box Tunnel -- Just How Many Lost Their Lives? -- Clayton Tunnel -- A Considerable Sensation -- Bramhope Tunnel -- And Mausoleum -- Queensbury Tunnel -- A Real Monster -- Pity the Poor Platelayer! -- Sapperton Tunnel -- 2 Collapse -- 'Buried Alive in Railway Tunnels' -- Watford Tunnel -- Buried Alive -- Northchurch Tunnel -- 'First Lives Lost' -- Wallers Ash Tunnel -- 'An Accident of a Frightful Description' -- Bramhope Tunnel -- Train Buried -- Cambrian Railway Tunnel -- Fatal Accident -- 3 Collision 
505 8 |a Clayton Tunnel -- An Accident of a Most Appalling Nature -- Blackheath Tunnel -- Two Trains Wrecked -- Canonbury Tunnel -- 'Not One, Not Two, Not even Three, but Four ... and Nearly Five ... Trains in a Tunnel!' -- Frodsham Tunnel -- A Dreadful Railway Accident -- 4 Explosion -- And a Short History of Explosives -- Wickwar Tunnel -- Gunpowder Accident -- Hose Tunnel -- A Matter of Three Candles -- Cymmer Tunnel -- Fifteen Persons Killed -- 5 Fire -- Welwyn Tunnel -- 'A Calamity So Astounding' -- Glasgow Tunnel -- Mission Impossible -- 6 Flood -- Scottish Tunnel -- Drowned 
505 8 |a Severn Tunnel -- Enough for a Lifetime -- Bibliography -- Notes 
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