RM Archive
FROM
THE RAILWAY MAGAZINE
ARCHIVES
100 YEARS AGO JANUARY 1922
Locomotive Boiler Explosions IN VIEW of the bursting of the boiler of No. 34, a four-cylinder compound eightcoupled engine, at Buxton recently, the annual returns of accidents is being expanded to include boilers or tubes of engines. There have been 99 reported during the 20 years 1901-20 inclusive, and they resulted in seven servants being killed and 111 injured.
All the fatal explosions, with the exception of one on the Taff Vale in 1904, were inquired into by the inspecting officers. Off the 99 reported, the highest 13 were on the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway and 11 on the London & North Western Railway.
50 YEARS AGO JANUARY 1972
Compensation
for
Ffestiniog
SUBJECT to appeal, the Ffestiniog Railway Company was awarded £65,000 compensation for disturbance and costs in a Lands Tribunal judgment against the Central Electricity Generating Board on November 19. First hearing of the litigation was in 1960.
Under the North Wales Hydro- Electric Power Act 1955, the board was authorised to flood a section of the main line for a pumped-storage reservoir and the land was acquired by compulsory purchase the following year. Compensation has been assessed from 1956 and the board will pay interest.