Devices to Eliminate Human Error The elimination on our railway systems of serious error which may be attributed entirely to human agency has for years been afield for serious study. Our railway engineers have surveyed this field again and again, and the result of their labours, though by no means fruitless, has not produced the really effective automatic device to fill the gap which to-day exists and which must be bridged before the risk of accident can be said to have reached the irreducible minimum.
The general managers of our railways have recently formed themselves into a committee to study further the question of railway control in so far as is necessary to avoid collisions and other accidents by the adoption of an automatically operating method of signalling which would supplement, though not altogether supplant, the human element. Recently, on a quiet part of the Great Eastern line near Ilford, what is known as the Regan safety device for the safe control "f railway trains was, without pre judice, tested.
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