RAILWAY SMASH
AT LONDON BRIDGE STATION PASSENGER KILLED AND FIFTEEN INJURED (Australian Press Assn.—United Service ) London, July 9. One passenger was killed and fifteen injured at London Bridge Station when a crowded train, taking business men. home, collided with an engine. Two coaches were telescoped in a manner similar to the Darlington accident. Several men were badly mangled and had to be extricated with crowbars. In the excitement hundreds leapt out regardless of the danger of live wires, forgetting that the railway had recently been electrified.
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 240, 11 July 1928, Page 11
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