Going Off the Rails

Disaster Postcards from the Trackside 1900-1915

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A fascinating guide to early train disasters, illustrated through contemporary postcards and explained expertly by John Hannavy.

The track record of Britain’s railways in the early 20th century was not a good one – in 1909, a report titled ‘General Report to the Board of Trade upon the Accidents that have occurred on the Railway of the United Kingdom during the year 1908’, was published, concluding that over 1,000 people had died on the railways during the year, and nearly 8,000 others had been injured. With the Edwardian era marking the heyday of the photographic postcard, many of the accidents which occurred were photographed in often-graphic detail and, in the days before photographs in newspapers became commonplace, postcards disseminated those news pictures rapidly across the world.

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ISBN13:9781849957229
Taal:EN
Bindwijze:Paperback
Aantal pagina's:120
Uitgever:Porto Press Ltd
Thema:
3MPBA Ca. 1900 tot ca. 1909
3MPBF Ca. 1910 tot ca. 1919

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