REPORT TO THE LORDS OF THE COMMITTEE OF PRIVY COUNCIL FOR TRADE UPON THE

ACCIDENTS WHICH HAVE OCCURRED ON

RAILWAYS

DURING THE YEAR 1856



General Report

Appendix No. 1  Tables of accidents for the years 1850 - 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6

Appendix No.  2  Classified list of accidents which occurred in 1856

Appendix No.  3  Table of accidents to persons employed on the railways

Appendix No.  4  
Accidents appertaining to the Rolling Stock and Road

 Accidents from engines and carriages leaving the rails
 Accidents due to facing points
 Accidents from boiler explosions
 Accidents from breaking of couplings
 
Accidents appertaining to the Management

  Collisions between trains following each other on the same line of rails
  Accidents at stations or sidings from shunting operations
  Accidents from trains entering stations at too high a speed
  Collisions between trains or portions of trains moving in opposite directions on the same line of rails
  Collisions at junctions
  Accidents at level crossings

Miscellaneous


Note.   These pages have been produced by scanning a faded copy of the report found in the archives of the Swedish Railway Club.  A few errors may have occurred in the process of running Optical Character Recognition on the text.

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