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East Coast Main Line Disasters - Index
Index to subjects and names appearing in the book
 and the page number.  (The book is sold out.)

Abbotts to Knebworth

Lamesley to Yorke

Abbotts Ripton  10, 11, 13, 26-7, 65-9, 73, 83
Aberlady Junction  84
Absolute Block system  36
Act, Employers Liability  5
Act, Health & Safety at Work  49, 79
Act, Offences against the Person  31
Act, Transport and Works  32
Acts, Railway Employment (Prevention of Accidents)  5
Acts, Regulation of Railways  10-1, 31
Acts, Workmen's Compensation  5, 57
Alcohol  6-7, 30-32
Anderson, Lt. Col. E. P.  25
Annitsford  82
Arlesey  8, 26, 51, 68, 87
Askern  87
Automatic Warning System or Train Control  10, 21, 28
Aycliffe  47
Ayton, Great  7
Babworth  16
Balby Junction  39-40, 49
Balfour Beatty  47, 49
Barkston  49, 63, 70-1,
Barnet  6, 45, 64
Barrowby Road  70-1,
Bawtry  6, 8, 57
Beal  27, 95
Bell Bar  58
Benton  18, 82
Berwick  2, 9, 42-43, 52-3, 56, 82
Biggleswade  3, 22
Birtley  31
Board of Trade  3, 11, 21, 40, 58, 63, 68, 92
Boilers  56
Boston  2
Bradford  16
Brakes, on trains  10/-11, 53, 96
Bridge House  59-60
Bridge Junction  39-40
British Railways  2, 55, 71, 79
Browney  60-1
Bytham, Little  43, 58, 59, 63, 65
Cadwell  4, 27, 36
Calton Tunnel  75
Cambridge Junction  4, 36
Carlton on Trent  7-8, 57, 72
Castle Hills Junction  13-15
Chathill  74-5
Christon Bank  7
Cockburnspath  52
Colton Junction  3
Connington, N, 65, 68, 83, 87-8
Connington, S  17, 83
Copenhagen Tunnel  5
Copmanthorpe  6, 90
Corby Glen  65, 68, 84
Cowper, Edward  63
Cramlington  82
Crown Prosecution Service  79
Croxdale Viaduct  60
Darlington  5, 14, 23-25,  30-31, 41, 51, 56, 77
Detonators  10
Directly Operated railways
Doncaster  2, 3, 5, 7, 9, 39-40, 49, 58, 65
Doncaster Decoy  5, 15
Dringhouses Yard  4
Druitt, Lt. Col. E  54
Dunbar  4, 8, 51-3, 57
Duns  75
Durham  2, 31, 41
East Coast Trains  3
Edinburgh  6, 8, 21, 55, 58, 75, 82
Essendine  5, 51
Eyemouth  6
Ferryhill  4, 31, 60
Finsbury Park  18, 64
Fire  84-6
Fletton Jct.  17,
Flooding  7-8, 72
Flying Scotsman or 'Scotchman', 12, 40, 57, 81-2, 91
Fog  10, 14-15, 51, 63-5, 68
Fortune, East  58
Freightliner  77
French, Edward  8, 68
Gainsborough  6
Galton, Captain Douglas  58, 75
Gas Works Tunnel  10, 22
Gateshead  2, 4, 6, 29, 30, 58
Gilling  85
Goswick  27-8, 81, 91, 95-6
Grantham  2, 7, 49, 63, 70-1, 84, 85, 92-5
Great Central Railway  16
Great North Eastern Railway  3
Great North of England Railway  6, 56
Great Northern Railway 2, 3, 5, 6, 7-8, 12-13, 25-7, 33-34, 36, 43, 46-47, 54, 58-9, 63, 65-9, 75-6, 84-5, 92-5
Great Paxton  4
Great Ponton  25
Greenwood  16
Gresley, Sir Nigel  69
Grove Road  6
Haggerston  91
Hall, Major  16, 76-7
Harringay  18
Hart, Gary 89-90
Hatfield  3, 5, 11, 25, 28-9, 33, 41, 45-46, 47-48, 55, 58, 68-70, 89
Haywards Crossing  87
Health & Safety Executive
Heaton  76, 84
Heck, Great  81, 88-90
Hett Mill  4
Hetton le Hole  23
High Dyke 995
High Level Bridge  58, 86
Hitchin  4, 9-10, 65, 70
Holloway  86
Holme  17, 67, 68, 74, 87
Hornsey  4, 5, 63-4,
Hougham  70, 85
Huntingdon  3, 5, 65-6, 68, 85-6
Hurworth  56
Hutchinson, Major-Gen. C.  15, 51, 59
Interlocking  10, 36
Jarvis, and associated companies  78-9
Jarvis-Fastline
Johnson, Richard  10
King Edward VII Bridge  2
King's Cross  2, 4, 5, 10, 22, 58, 75, 81
Knebworth  75-6

Lamesley  31
Langley Bridge  4
Leeds  90
Leeds Northern Railway  2
Leigh Junction  75
Level crossings  6
Lincoln  2, 12, 21, 63
London & North Eastern Railway 2, 37-39, 69-71,
London Midland & Scottish Railway  64
Longniddry  84
Lucker  56
Maiden Lane  2
Manchester, Sheffield & Lincs Rly.  12, 72
Manor House  34-36
Manors  76
Marindin, Major  36, 43-5, 47, 64
Markham, East  87
Marshall Meadows  42-43
Marshmoor  57-8
McMullen, Col. D.  17, 55, 84
Midland Railway  9, 10, 12, 54, 72, 75
Monkseaton  76
Morden Carrs  41
Morpeth  10, 29-30, 31, 41
Mount, Lt. Col. A.  16-17, 39
Muskham, North
Muskham, South  6
Musselburgh  22
Naburn  88
National Express East Coast   3
Network Rail  3, 79
New England  21, 56-7, 65, 74
New Southgate (Colney Hatch)  9, 45, 97
Newark  5, 10, 12, 54, 59, 68, 72, 84, 88
Newcastle  8, 18-20, 29, 51, 58, 72, 74, 76-7,
Newhailes Jct  22
Newham Bog  56
Nineteen Mile Bridge  5
North British Railway  2, 3, 6, 8-11, 21, 42-43, 52-4, 58, 75
North Eastern Railway  2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8-11, 34, 41-3, 51, 68, 86
Northallerton  13-14, 34, 61
Oakley, Sir Henry  47, 68
Offord  21, 83-4, 87
Otterington  34-6
Ouston  59
Peace, Charlie  7
Peascliffe Tunnel  7, 9, 70-1, 73
Penmanshiel Tunnel  3, 55, 85
Permissive block  8, 17, 36
Peterborough  2, 3, 6, 9, 15-16, 17, 56, 59, 63, 65, 68-9, 74, 83, 86, 94
Pilmoor  62
Plasmor Sidings  89
Plessey  82
Ponton, Great
Potters Bar  7, 16-17, 29, 41, 58, 78-9
Pringle, Colonel John  15-16, 24, 82-3
Rail Regulator, Office of  79
Rails  10, 45-49
Railtrack  3, 47-49, 79, 90
Railway Executive  88
Ranskill  4, 15
Raskelf  51
Raven, Vincent  10
Raynor, W H 96
Retford  3, 4-5, 6, 9, 12-13, 15-16, 39, 67, 92
Riccall  2, 79, 88
Rich, Colonel F.  12-13, 33-34, 76
Robertson, Col.  30
Rose, Major  72
Royal Border Bridge  2
Sandy  4, 22, 71-2
Scremerston  96
Selby  2, 5
Shaftholme Junction  2
Signalling  8-10, 12-21, 25, 33-40, 63, 68-9
Skelden, Robert  9
Spital Junction  64
St Margaret's  75, 82
St Neots  4, 7, 23, 43, 47, 83, 87
Staff, railway  3-4, 6
Stamford Cutting  74
Stevenage  65, 75
Stobswood Crossing  88
Stoke Tunnel  7, 25
Sturrock, Archibald 57
Tallington  6, 7, 63
Telegraph  9, 68
Telephone  10
Temple Hirst  3
Tempsford  4, 81
Thirsk  4, 10, 14, 34, 51, 61-2
Three Counties  33, 36-37
Townshend-Rose, Lt. Col. A.  31
Track circuiting  10, 40
Tranent  75
Transport, Ministry of  55, 72, 85
Trench, Colonel Arthur Chevenix  85
Trespassers  3, 6
Tuxford  87, 88, 92
Tweeddale, Lord  35
Tweedmouth  2, 28, 30, 74, 84, 95
Tyler, Captain  23, 26-7, 34, 41, 57, 59, 68, 84
Victoria, Queen  5
Virgin Trains  90
Von Donop, Lt. Col. P. G.  31, 95
Wakefield  7
Walton  64
Welham Green  47-49, 59
Welwyn  8, 21, 33, 75-6, 84
Welwyn Garden City  5, 20-21, 37-38, 68-9,
Werrington Junction  25, 56
Weston  92
Westwood  64
Whisker Hill Curve  12
Widdrington  88
Wilson, Lt. Col. G.  20-21, 45
Wiske Moor  15
Wood Green  58, 63, 79
Wood Walton  17, 65, 68
Woodhouse, Lt Col  68, 71
Wymondley  4, 9, 65
Wynne, Captain George  13, 25, 40, 56, 75, 92
Yaxley  74
Yolland, Colonel W.  9, 43, 46, 58, 63
York  2, 4, 9, 51, 80, 81, 85, 91
York & Darlington Junction Railway
York & N Midland Railway  2, 4
York & Newcastle Railway  2
York, Newcastle & Berwick Railway  2, 3, 41, 56, 74
Yorke, Lt. Col. H. A.  36-37, 53