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A carriage full of curates
Author(s) -
Champkin Julian
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
significance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.123
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 1740-9713
pISSN - 1740-9705
DOI - 10.1111/j.1740-9713.2013.00695.x
Subject(s) - carriage , derailment , history , storm , genealogy , geography , archaeology , meteorology , train
2013 has been a bad year on the railways. The derailment at Santiago in Spain and the Lac‐Mégantic disaster in Canada have taken at least 120 lives and raised a media storm about rail safety. Not for the first time. A century and a half ago William Farr wrote about the same thing. Because 1868 was also a bad year on the railways. Julian Champkin delved into the archives.