British Tramway Accidents

F. Wilson, edited by G. Claydon, laminated hardback, 228pp, £35

CONTENTS:

THE AUTHOR
EDITORIAL NOTE

BRITISH TRAMWAY ACCIDENTS
PART I – Administrative and Legal Background by G B Claydon
PART II – Tramway Accidents Reviewed by Frank E Wilson. These are not all known tramway accidents but a selection of the most serious/and or those being of particular interest.

APPENDIX A:
Accidents listed by location, with operators, dates and fatalities
APPENDIX B:
Details of certain Railway Inspectorate inquiries culled from trade journals
APPENDIX C:
Review by J D Markham of the Mossley accident of 20 October 1911
APPENDIX D:
Commentary by J D Markham on the report of the Rawtenstall accident
of 11 November 1911
APPENDIX E:
Instructions to conductors by Tynemouth & District Electric Traction
Company following the Tynemouth accident of 27 September 1919
APPENDIX F:
Facsimile copies of Railway Inspectorate reports of significant tramway
accidents in Dover, Rawtenstall and Mossley
APPENDIX G:
Miscellaneous photographs of tramway accidents not the subject of
Railway Inspectorate reports appearing in the text