TRAINS COLLIDE

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 80, 16 January 1936, Page 5

TRAINS COLLIDE

TWO DEAD, TWENTY SEVEN HURT

DISASTER NEAR SWINDON.

GOODS VANS BECOME DETACHIED

(United Press Association—Copyright.) (Received This Day, 10.10 a.m.) LONDON, January 15. Two were killed and 27 were injured when the Penzance-London express crashed into part of a goods train near Swindon. It is believed that the read portion of the goods train became detached from the front, blocking the express' way. The engine overturned and the front coaches were wrecked. The driver of the express and a woman passenger were killed. The collision occurred in darkness on a frosty early morning. The passengers in the sleeping coach were thrown from their beds, many being pinned under the wreckage. Bonfires were lit from the debris. Rescue wprk was accelerated owing to a party of railway workers travelling on the same train to Didcot. They immediately gave assistance to the injured. Railwaymen were puzzled by the sound of* "Tweet tweet" from the engine and found a budgerigar in the piston tube. A total of fourteen budgerigars were recovered; They had been in a box which had burst in the crash.