"GHOST TRAIN" RUN
Thundering through' the night without driver or., fireman, a "ghost train" racing towards certain disaster afMaft ket Harborough was halted when a signalman who had never driven aa engine before leaped aboard the runaway at Kibworth, Junction, England. If the train had gone over the risa beyond the. junction it : would hay« gathered speed down the incline and raced into Market Harborough at 90 miles an hour'and disaster would hava been inevitable. The driver and fireman of the train, which was travelling between Leicester and Kettering, had got down from the engine to make an examination when the goods wagons became divided, it was understood, owing to a mechanical defect. As they walked besiae the track tney .saw the engine and some of the trucks move off into the darkness. The driverless engine travelled for eight miles through the important junction at Wigson and went on down the main London line and through Great. Glen station. At Kibworth the runaway- slowed down. The signalman raced along beside the driver's cab, gripped the footplate, scrambled aboard and stopped the train.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 130, 3 June 1937, Page 12
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182"GHOST TRAIN" RUN Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 130, 3 June 1937, Page 12
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