GOING TOO FAST
ROYAL' SCOT EXPRESS
INQUIRY INTO DISASTER
EVIDENCE AS'TO SPEED
United Tress '-Association—lty Electric Telegraph—Copyright. (Received 27th March, 2 p.m.) LONDON, 26th March. Giving evidence at the inquiry into I the Royal Scot train disaster, the driver | of a. slow train halted at Lcighton ! Buzzard says, that he saw tho express pass a home signal at danger, j travelling.at sixty miles an .hour. He feared that an accident would happen at the junction. The signalman at Leighton Buzzard gave evidence that ho noticed the express travelling faster than usual, and consequently did not lower the home signal. Ho expected that the speed would be reduced to twenty miles an hour when the ' express passed the home signal at danger,. He. estimated the speed' before the derailment as 55 miles an hour.
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 73, 27 March 1931, Page 11
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133GOING TOO FAST Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 73, 27 March 1931, Page 11
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