DRIVER KILLED
EXPLOSION ON ENGINE. FIREMAN IN SERIOUS PLIGHT. GUAttD APPLIES THE BRAKES. (United Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 12.40 p.m.), LONDON, January 20. , Noticing that excessive speed had been reached, 'the guard on a train from Tring to Euston applied the emergency brakes and stopped it. He found the*driver killed and! the fireman seriously injured by a- burst thbe in the engine. (George Lambourne, the fireman, crawled through scalding steam and reached the controls after the engine driver had been hurled on to the track by the engine pip© bursting in - a tunnel. " . . Lambourne, despite .scalds, controlled the tram, but was blinded and •was unable to see the station lights. The guard, noticing escaping steam, applied the emergency brakes and stopped .the train at Watford. "The explosion occurred in the tunnel. I don't know what happened," gasped Lambourne, who was found groaning in" pain on the footplate. He was sent to. hospital in a serious condition.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 54, Issue 93, 30 January 1934, Page 6
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