THE YEAR’S ACCIDENTS.
[By Electric Telegraph—Copyright J , [United Press iAbsooiation.] (Received 10.50 a.m.) London, October 27. There have been nine railway accidents this year, mostly duo to errors in .signalling. Six companies are involved. Some persons attribute the accidents to a new control system now in general operation. The change tends to relieve signalmen from direct responsibility and makes it increasingly difficult to keep trace of trains. It is stated that many signalmen live in daily dread of disaster. Some newspapers and railwaymen are-demanding ft special inquiry. ■ '
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 49, 29 October 1913, Page 3
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87THE YEAR’S ACCIDENTS. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 49, 29 October 1913, Page 3
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