EUSTON TRAIN SMASH.
NO CULPABLE NEGLECT. (BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION COPYBIGHT.) (AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION.) LONDON, June 6. At the inquest on the victims of the Euston railway disaster, a verdict of accidental death was returned. The signalman, Chambers, wept while giving evidence. He said that he made no mistake with the lever, but believed the train was 011 the other line. The Coroner said that he was satisfied that Chambers made an honest mistake, and there was no culpable neglect. were killed in a train smash at Euston Station at the end of April last. The speciaJ train into the rear of which an electric train crashed was crowded with excursionists from Coventry who were bound for Wembley to witness the Association football Cup iinal. The special had stopped in a tunnel about a mile outside Euston, the London terminus. Chambers admitted that he forgetfully passed the electric train on to the line on which an express train was standing. He realised his mistako only when th 0 collision occurred.]
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Press, Volume LX, Issue 18094, 9 June 1924, Page 9
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