Hardback. Very Good. ISBN 0715351982 9780715351987 [GB]

Newton Abbot, Devon: David and Charles. 148 pages, b/w illustrations. Spine of dustwrapper slightly sunned, else minor edgewear and in very good condition. Foxing to endpapers, prelims and outer page edges. Light toning to pages else contents clean and unmarked. . VG-. Hardcover. Date: 1971. 1971. David and Charles ISBN 0715351982 9780715351987 [GB]

ISBN10: 0715351982, ISBN13: 9780715351987, [publisher: David and Charles] Hardcover The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
[Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1971]

ISBN10: 0715351982, ISBN13: 9780715351987, [publisher: David & Charles Publishers Ltd, Newton Abbot, Devon] Hardcover First Edition First edition, first impression. Ex library with usual stamps and defects. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, some slight yellowing to back jacket, but overall jacket fresh and unfaded. Not price clipped (£1.75), no personal inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall lightly read for ex library. 148pp, illustrated. The Armagh rail disaster happened on 12th June 1889 near Armagh, Ulster, Ireland, when a crowded Sunday school excursion train had to negotiate a steep incline, the steam locomotive was unable to complete the climb and the train stalled. The train crew decided to divide the train and take forward the front portion, leaving the rear portion on the running line. The rear portion was inadequately braked and ran back down the gradient, colliding with a following train. Eighty people were killed and 260 injured, about a third of them children. It was the worst rail disaster in the UK in the nineteenth century, and remains Ireland's worst railway disaster ever. To this day it is the fourth worst railway accident to happen in the United Kingdom. At the time it was the worst rail disaster in Europe and led directly to various safety measures becoming legal requirements for railways in the United Kingdom. This was important both for the measures introduced and for the move away from ...