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A collapsed bridge and a railway accident with an overturned train. Process print.

RE carriage of milk / W. Owen.

Saint Mary (the Blessed Virgin) as protector against fires. Engraving by Geoffroy.

A railway employee (?) wheels away the dismembered body of a man killed in a railway accident; he converses with a physician. Process print after J-A. Faivre, 1902.

A railway accident. Lithograph by Paul Van Rijssel (Paul-Ferdinand Gachet), 1879.

The fall of a railway train from a bridge in Hamilton, Ontario. Wood engraving, 1857.

The victim of a railway accident approaching the railway board's directors for compensation for his extensive injuries. Watercolour by C.W.D., 1866.

Failure of sight from railway and other injuries of the spine and head : its nature and treatment, with a physiological and pathological disquisition into the influence of the vaso-motor nerves on the circulation of the blood in the extreme vessels / by Thomas Wharton Jones.

A railroad boy's appeal.

In memory of those killed on the L.&B.R., at Clayton Tunnel, Sunday, Aug. 25th, 1861 : Christiana Manthorpe, Ellen Lower, John Ingledew, Agnes Parker, George Wescott, Edward Charlwood.

Well Hall, Eltham, train crash, 1972: an injured train driver being carried to an ambulance. Photograph by Press Association, 1972.

Railway surgery : a handbook on the management of injuries / by Clinton B. Herrick ; profusely illustrated by numerous original engravings.

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Failure of sight from railway and other injuries of the spine and head : its nature and treatment, with a physiological and pathological disquisition into the influence of the vaso-motor nerves on the circulation of the blood in the extreme vessels / by Thomas Wharton Jones.

A railroad boy's appeal.

In memory of those killed on the L.&B.R., at Clayton Tunnel, Sunday, Aug. 25th, 1861 : Christiana Manthorpe, Ellen Lower, John Ingledew, Agnes Parker, George Wescott, Edward Charlwood.

Well Hall, Eltham, train crash, 1972: an injured train driver being carried to an ambulance. Photograph by Press Association, 1972.

Railway surgery : a handbook on the management of injuries / by Clinton B. Herrick ; profusely illustrated by numerous original engravings.