English military surveyor, astronomer, and engineer (1810–1885)
William Yolland, the Royal Society commemorative portrait
Lieutenant Colonel William Yolland CB, FRS FRSA (17 March 1810 – 4 September 1885) was an English military surveyor, astronomer and engineer, and was Britain's Chief Inspector of Railways from 1877 until his death. He was a redoubtable campaigner for railway safety, often in the face of strong opposition, at a time when railway investment was being directed towards the expansion of the networks rather than the prevention of accidents. He was a member of the three-man committee of inquiry into the Tay Bridge disaster.[1]
Lieutenant Colonel WilliamYolland CB, FRS FRSA (17 March 1810 – 4 September 1885) was an English military surveyor, astronomer and engineer, and was...
Commissioner of Wrecks, presided; supported by Inspector of Railways WilliamYolland and William Henry Barlow, President of the Institution of Civil Engineers...
disaster. He sat with Henry Cadogan Rothery and WilliamYolland, co-authoring one of the final reports with Yolland recommending a commission be established...
Hunting Club Tay Bridge Disaster (1879), Thomas Bouch, William Henry Barlow, and WilliamYolland Ashtabula River Railroad Disaster (1876), Amasa Stone...
Kimberley Heinz Wolff Levison Wood Jim Woodcock Jeff Woolf Derek Wyatt WilliamYolland Douglas Young Jock Young Graham J Zellick Igor Zeiger Zhengxu Zhao...
whistle and turned a cab-mounted red lamp. Ten years later, Colonel WilliamYolland of the Railway Inspectorate was calling for a system that not only...
corps. The other commissioners were Lieutenant-colonel WilliamYolland and the Reverend William Lake (afterwards dean of Durham); its secretary was Arthur...
three-inch scale for most of Scotland. When Colby retired, he recommended WilliamYolland as his successor, but he was considered too young and the less experienced...
who wrote in the Tory interest William Stratford Dugdale DL (1800–1871) a British Tory politician and MP WilliamYollandCB FRS FRSA (1810–1885) an English...
to help rescue efforts. The investigation which followed was led by WilliamYolland and established the root causes very quickly. The tyre was on an old...
its senior staff and, at the same time, Hall had banished Captain WilliamYolland, the most able member of the Survey, to its remotest office in Enniskillen...
attempted to have the Wotton Tramway recognised as a railway, and WilliamYolland inspected the line in April 1873. The Railway Regulation Act 1844 defined...
and a Board of Trade inspection of the line was carried out by Col WilliamYolland on 31 December 1861. He required a number of changes, but these were...
28, 1879. He was assisted by the Chief inspector of Railways, WilliamYolland and William Henry Barlow, President of the Institution of Civil Engineers...
(1811–1882) Sir Thomas Watson (1792–1882) Bennet Woodcroft (1803–1879) WilliamYolland (1810–1885) "Fellows of the Royal Society". London: Royal Society....
clear as another train was already on the way down from St Germans. WilliamYolland, the investigating officer for the Board of Trade, recommended that...
Junction. The link opened in 1877, but only for goods trains: Colonel WilliamYolland, the chief inspector of British railways, considered the platforms...
of Trade. Retrieved 27 January 2014. Nock & Cooper 1987, pp. 18–21. Yolland, William (9 October 1861). "Report to the Board of Trade" (PDF). Railways Archive...
completed, the bridge had its statutory inspection and tests by Colonel Yolland on behalf of the Board of Trade on 20 April 1859. He ran a heavy train...
possession of the Moonstone, before passing it on to Godfrey Ablewhite Lucy Yolland is a neighbour of the Verinders who is the confidential friend of Rosanna...
Townsend Ruth and Augustus Goetz Cort Theatre, Broadway 1995 Translations Lt. Yolland Brian Friel Plymouth Theatre, Broadway 1995 Racing Demon Rev. Tony Ferris...
(Willi Frisch) The Thargon Menace 2 19–26 June 1978 Roger Price Peter Yolland Alien Thargon youths crash-land on the Earth, and the conniving Pacific...
was authorised by an Act of 22 June 1863. Construction proceeded and Col Yolland of the Board of Trade inspected the line on 27 May 1864. However he was...
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