CRASH INTO EXPRESS.
EXCURSIONISTS' ESCAPE. Excursionists in an express bound from Paddington to West Wales lately had fortunate escapes in an alarming smash at Cockett station, on the outskirts of Swansea. The express, which had 200 passengers on board, mostly West Wales holidaymakors returning to London, stopped to "release the bunker, engine which had helped it up the incline and through the half-mile long tunnel leading to Cockett station. Sunnedly a light engine, running tender first, emerged from the tunnel and crashed into the last coach of the express, a luggage van with a few passenger compartments in front. The only occupant of this coacli was a ticket collector, who had a narrow escape from injury. The front of the light engine became embedded underneath the coach but although the coach telescoped it did not leave the rails. Coaches in the centre of the train had their buffers forced in and a horse van next to the express engine was derailed. About 20 passengers, including men and women, received slight bruises through luggage falling' from the rack?.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 53, Issue 211, 19 June 1933, Page 8
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