THE STOAT'S NEST DISASTER.
GRIPPING WHEELS. AN OFFICIAL REPORT. By Teligraph.— Press Association.— Copyright. (Received April 6, 10 a.m.) LONDON, sth April. An official report on the Stoat's Nest railway dina^ter shows that it was caused by n wheel of one of tho carriages blidino; mi th? axle. The Government inspector urges that severe railway tcst3 for gripping wheels to axlos jshouM be made. On the 30th January, while the Brighton and London express * was running at forty miles on hour, a coupling broke at Stoat* Nest station, near Croydon, a few miles from London. The rear portion of tho train ran come distance before it left the motals, and then a carriage, was flung across the platform and overturned! Seven persons were killed, including a man standing on the platform, and twenty others were injured. The carriago jumped in the air and ascended tho slope on the down platform, destroying the signal-post, a large water-crane, and 20ft of paling between tho platform and thc> main line. It next somersaulted to the permanent way.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 80, 6 April 1910, Page 7
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