Edward Tyer Explained

Edward Tyer (6 February 1830 - 25 December 1912) was an English railway engineer who developed the Tyer's Electric Train Tablet system widely used in the 19th and 20th centuries on single-track railways. He devised it after the Thorpe rail accident of 1874, which left 21 people dead.^[1]

He was also an astronomer.^[2]

See also

• Obituary: Edward Tyer . Minutes of the Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers . Institution of Civil Engineers . 1914. 195 . 1914 . 379 . 10.1680/imotp.1914.16820 . free .

References

(Edward Tyer on Luxembourgish Wikipedia)

Notes and References

1. Derail: Why Trains Crash by Nicholas Faith, page 44, publ 2000 by Channel 4 books, .
2. Web site: 1914MNRAS..74R.280. Page 280.