RAILWAY DISASTERS
FREQUENCY IN BRITAIN official statement (Australian - Press Association.) London, January 11. Public uneasiness at the frequency of railway disasters is answered by ,Colonel J. H. Follows, vice-president of the London, Midland, and Scottish, who declares.that the driver of the express. in the Gloucester accident was true to type, steady, solid, nothing could rattle him. He was typical of 29,000 drivers and firemen on the system. Locomotives were better to-day than ever. The engine was one of the latest and the most . perfect types. “Thus you had a man and a machine as near perfection as possible. I have absolute confidence in the permanent way. Every proved safety device has been adopted, and money is continually spent in experimental work. Statistics show that there is a thirty-six million to one chance of a passenger being killed for every single journey he makes. Who can throw the first i stone?!’
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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 93, 14 January 1929, Page 3
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150RAILWAY DISASTERS Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 93, 14 January 1929, Page 3
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