STRONGER THAN STEEL
Coaches Used on British Railways. CASTLECARY SMASH INQUIRY. British Official Wireless. (Received 12.30 p.m.) RUGBY, December 10. At an inquiry into the train disaster at Castlecary 011 the Edinburgh-Glasgow liue, Sir Nigel Greslov, the chief engineer of the London and NorthEastern Railway, said that the carriages were made with heavy steel underframes and solid end sections. It was not possible to make a carriage withstand the impact of a great engine rushing into it at sft miles an hour. It must collapse at the end. If it was possible to have a carriage which would not collapse and which was of solid armour plating, the energy would be imparted throughout the train. In such a train there would not be injured but everybody wuuld be killed by the impact.
There was no telescoping in the true sense at the Castlecarv accident. It was overrunning rather than telescop-
The coach construction of the company's stock was not decided on through reasons of economy. The weijjht-for-weijrlit type of coach used was stronger structurally tlia_y, steel.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 299, 17 December 1937, Page 7
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