RM Archive
100 YEARS AGO JULY 1923
Accident inquiries in 1922
DURING the year 1922 there were 27 inquiries into railway accidents as compared with 18 in 1921, 25 in 1920, 30 in 1919, 69 in the five war years 1914-1918, and 30 in 1913. The 27 accidents in 1922 included 15 train collisions, two buffer-stop collisions, five derailments and five locomotive failures. Of the 15 collisions, six were