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1 online resource |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| 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. |
| Contents |
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 |
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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 |
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Severn Tunnel -- Enough for a Lifetime -- Bibliography -- Notes |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Railroad tunnels -- Great Britain -- History.
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Railroad tunnels. |
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Great Britain. |
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History. |
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Civil -- General. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Matheson, Rosa. Terror in the tunnels. Stroud : History Press, 2017 0750969962 9780750969963 (OCoLC)963361012 |
| ISBN |
9780750983099 (electronic book) |
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0750983094 (electronic book) |
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9780750969963 |
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0750969962 |
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