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SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
111,011 TH/1 MORNING TAPERS OF TIIIS DAT.
POST.—The result of the inquest on the body of Mr,
Dean, killed on the Midland Railway, cannot but be re•
garded with surprise. The whole evidence certainly
bears out that Mr. Lightfoot committed a gross error in
judgment in the course he pursued, and, under the cir-
cumstances. The fact appears self-evident, that he should
have driven the train from Beeston, with the prokability
before him that it would be met on the same line by the
train from Nottingham. An accident had occurred to
stop the proper line of rail, and it was his duty to take
every precaution that no collision should take place. But
what of the Railway Company ? The jury at the
coroner's inquest are silent. No word of the delay in
removing the obstruction from the proper line ; no word
of the cutting down of salaries, of the substitution of
boys for men_ on the line ; indeed, the company are
passed over by the jury with the consideration due to
the most innocent persons. We are afraid the public
will not take the same view of the case. The company
appears to us to be responsible for the efficiency of the
railway with belongs to them, whatever the jury may
think ; and neither their verdict, nor General Pasley's
letter, can alter this responsibility. The affairs
of the company seem to be managed in a way
not knawn certainly on any other line of rail-
way, and we think it is high time its affairs were
in other hands. Judging from the evidence, there
appears to be no person responsible for what occurs.
The driver blames the guard, the guard the station-
master, and the station-master is not responsible at all ;
and thus are the lives of hundreds endangered every
day. The matter is too serious to be passed over without
more inquiry than has yet been gone into, and apart
from the question of a deodand upon the company (about
which the law seems to be very uncertain), we think this
is a case which the railway department of the Board of
Trade ought at once to take into consideration, and so
care the public from the danger which they daily run.
CHRONICLE.—We abstain from making any ob•
servation upon the verdict of the Coroner's jury at Not-
tingham, so far as relates to the connexion which any
individual may have had with the late melancholy oc-
currence on the Midland Counties Railway. That por-
tion of the subject will be thoroughly investigated before
the proper tribunal. But the jury, in delivering their
verdict, accompanied it with certain recommendations
which we think deserve earnest and immediate attention,
as calculated, if acted upon, to ensure greater safety to
those who travel by railway. The code of signals
which is at present in use would appear to be suscepti-
ble of one great improvement, and that would be par-
ticularly applicable to the running of carriages during
the prevalence of a thick fog, when the ordinary signals
cannot be easily discerned. On the day of tke unfor-
tunate collision near Nottingham, so dense a fog pre-
vailed that the usual means of conveying intelligence
along the line by signal were utterly useless. Now, it is
evident that if a more perfect system of making signals
than that at present in use on the Midland Counties
railway were adopted, namely, the electric telegraph, in-
telligence could have been immediately sent before each
train which was about to start on the wrong line, and
this would have been sufficient to prevent the loss of
life which occurred. It may be the fact that there is
already a code of signals capable of conveying intelli-
gence distinctly:in a fog, and we shall not at present
suggest that the adoption of an electric telegraph should
be made imperative ; but we must maintain that certain
which have been omitted on this lino,
emplocleoymedotivuentilrwebr);
g.debTeinntsfuture made peremptory on every railroad.
saTir'lroieattnrie should be, in the first place, a clear, brief, and
intelligible code of regulations for all
con-
nectedsop
competent examination, it was shown that he un-
erismonmedsiiiaotnellyd wbieth
so employed
' derstood those regulations ; and all the persons so
engaged should be from time to time examined by a
competent and responsible officer, in
rorder to ascertain
that they had not forgotten them. his would, at all
events, secure uniformity, and impress upon the servants
engaged a sense of the dangers which are constantly to
be guarded against, and from the risk of which the
longest series of safe journeys would give no impunity.
It must also be evident that there should be at every
station some ono who had a responsible control over the
starting of the trains, and who should be required to
' ' understand and recognise that responsibility. Whenever
a collision takes place on a railway, or any accident
' causing a shock of a similar nature to occur, the car-
' riages farthest removed from the obstruction suffer