Edward Tyer (6 February 1830 - 25 December 1912) was an English railway engineer who developed the

Tyer's Electric Train Tablet Tyer's Electric Train Tablet system is a form of railway signalling for Single track (rail), single line railways used in several countries; it was first devised in Great Britain by engineer Edward Tyer after the Thorpe rail accident of 1874, whi ...

system widely used in the 19th and 20th centuries on single-track railways. He devised it after the

Thorpe rail accident The Thorpe rail accident occurred on 10 September 1874, when two trains were involved in a head-on collision at Thorpe St Andrew in the English county of Norfolk. The accident occurred on what was then a single-track rail line between Norwich r ...

of 1874, which left 21 people dead.''Derail: Why Trains Crash'' by Nicholas Faith, page 44, publ 2000 by

Channel 4 Channel 4 is a British free-to-air public broadcast television network operated by the state-owned enterprise, state-owned Channel Four Television Corporation. It began its transmission on 2 November 1982 and was established to provide a four ...

books, . He was also an astronomer.

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(Edward Tyer on Luxembourgish Wikipedia) 1830 births 1912 deaths British railway pioneers English electrical engineers British railway civil engineers 19th-century British engineers British astronomers {{UK-bio-stub

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