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.Derail: Why Trains Crash by Nicholas Faith, page 44, publ 2000 by Channel 4 books, .
He was also an astronomer.
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(Edward Tyer on Luxembourgish Wikipedia)