RAILWAY DEATH
GIRL GUIDES' FATE
A DRIVER'S MESSAGE
. LONDON, 20th-August.' "Two children dead on the line," read a note which the "driver of fhe Paddington-Weymouth express threw on 'to the Maidenhead platform as tho train thundered through that station. The driver had hurriedly scrawled the note in hia cab after he had observed, on the Taplow railway bridge over the Thames, the bodies of Agnes Presland, aged 13, and Doris Tompkins, aged 11, Girl, Guides, who were returning from a holiday camp in Somerset. The stationmaster and members of the staff set signhls against all trains and hastened to the scene in a pilot engine. They found tho girl Tompkins dead and her companion gravely injured lying between the up and down lines. , : ■ A member of the troop, realising that the accident had occurred, pulled thealarm cord of the train in which she was travelling, tut it did not stop until it was three miles from the scene. The two girls, it was stated, had been leaning through a window to cool their faces owing to the intense heat.'
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Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 52, 30 August 1932, Page 9
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179RAILWAY DEATH Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 52, 30 August 1932, Page 9
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