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THE report which Colonel A. C. Trench has presented to the Ministry of War Transport on the fire in which six schoolboys lost their lives and which destroyed three coaches of an express train on the L. and N.E. Railway on April 28 should not disturb faith in the general safety of railway travel in Great Britain. It is unfortunate, as is pointed out in Engineering of July 11, that, in the interests of economy, the reports of inquiries into the causes of railway accidents are no longer being published and circulated in the usual manner. This is doubly regrettable, for the account of the tests carried out by Colonel Trench, in spite of war conditions, is good evidence of the morale of the country.
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Fire Risks in Railway Trains. Nature 148, 163–164 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/148163e0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/148163e0