Derail: Why Trains Crash: Why Trains Crash

by Nicholas Faith

"Derail" is an analysis of the most dramatic, bizarre and terrifying rail accidents over the past 150 years. It asks what lessons have been learned from past disasters and what steps remain to be taken.

208 pages, Hardcover

First published August 11, 2000

About the author

Nicholas Faith is a former senior editor for the Sunday Times and The Economist, a journalist and author.

He has written widely on wines, spirits and transport.

In 1996 he founded the International Spirits Challenge.

In September 2010 Nicholas Faith was the first recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award given by the Bureau National Interprofessional de Cognac.