RAILWAY ACCIDENT IN KENT.
LONDON, August 31
A morning train, conveying 500 workmen from London to Milton Range, halted at a station two miles beyond Gravesend, ivbeTO Ifcho London County Council is carrying out an extensive road construc-tion'-scheme.' Tho train overran the platform at Milton, which, is a temporary one, and has no signal-box. Owing to the forr, workmen crossing the line after leaving the train on the wrong side did not notice a light engine approaching, which killed one man and cut off another’s foot. During the confusion, a second workmen’s train, in the absence of a signal, telescoped the three rear carriages of the stationary train, in which the workmen were sitting awaiting its return to the platform. They were buried beneath the debris, three being killed and fourteen iniured. Some workmen, in leaping from the train, fell into a canal adjoining tho line.—A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Evening Star, Issue 18053, 22 August 1922, Page 6
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