Fatal train accidents on Britain's mainline railways

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society

Volumn 163, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 99-119

  Evans, Andrew W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Accidents; Fatalities; Railways; Safety; Train protection

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034358405     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-985X.00159     Document Type: Article

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