Excerpt from Railway Collisions Prevented While deeply lamenting the unfortunate Railway Collisions by which the public has so frequently and severely suffered, the Author was led to a full consideration of the subject, from a conviction that it was only requisite to look the matter boldly in the face, in order not only to discover their cause, but to prevent their recurrence. In tracing the origin of accidents arising from collisions of trains, he found that many valuable suggestions for their prevention had been from time to time made by the Govern ment Inspectors of Railways, but which, from being diffused through a mass of Parliamentary Reports, lost half their force he has therefore endeavoured to collect and concentrate these official opinions in support of his own views, which he felt might otherwise be passed lightly by; but which he now hopes, confirmed as they mainly are by those of eminently practical men, will be favourably regarded. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.