U.K. RAILWAYS BREAKDOWNS

Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28833, 2 March 1959, Page 11

U.K. RAILWAYS BREAKDOWNS

Passengers Stage Protest March (Rec. "1030 p.m.) LONDON. February 28. Angry bowler-hatted businessmen marched along a main London railway line last night to protest against a two-hour breakdown in services. According to the "Dally Herald." they waved their umbrellas and shouted "it’s quicker to walk” as they tramped along between Little Chalfont and , Amersham in Buckinghamshire. As a result all trains on the line were ordered to stop. The trouble, according to newspapers, started when a train from London broke down. Passengers were told they would be taken on by buses. But only One bus was available and this took only a quarter of the stranded passengers. When a train did come all crowded aboard and overloaded it, resulting in the unpopular “all change" cry. So the passengers decided to walk and passed around a petition demanding an inquiry,

Archbishop Makarios flew from London Airport tar Rome today after a dramatic three-engined emergency landing at the airport this morning. Only minutes after the Olympic Airlines DC-8 airliner, with 44 people aboard, left the runway, the pilot'feathered a dying engine Then, circling the airport on three engines, he asked for permission to make an amor* gency return. Fire engines and ambulances stood by as the airliner mode a perfect landing. The plane was withdrawn from service and Archbishop Makarios and his party left Landon in u second plane later. The commander of the first aircraft denied any suggestion of sabotage, but admitted that the true nature of the engine fault had not been found. He said be first noticed trouble when the aircraft wan about 38 feet off the ground- *Tt could have been a very difficult Situa- , tion.” he added to London to take part in the international conference which 1 agreed on independence for . Cyprus, now a British colony. . After a hectic week of nsgotta- , tions. the 45-year-old ettaurch spent three days in bod with sinusitis, but has -flow, recovered. He has been tipped for the ' presidency of the new Cyprus classed as lesser offenders were released today under tM terms of the amnesty annouSed last night. 1 » SmSueT Grin! mtS