CORNISH EXPRESS
A SLIGHT ACCIDENT NO ONE INJURED. (British Official News.)' Press Association — By Wireless —Copyright. HUG BY, August 10. (.Received August 11, at 11.30 n.m.) A slight accident occurred to-day to the Cornish-Rivicra express, which daily makes the journey from London to the west, with a non-stop run to Plymouth, a distance of 226 miles, in four hours. When passing through Berkshire at the rate of sixty miles an hour the leading pair of this" engine’s bogie wheels left the rails, but. neither the engine nor r. j of the coaches was derailed. ami no one was injured beyond shaking a few of the 600 holiday-makers who were aboard.
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Evening Star, Issue 19632, 11 August 1927, Page 6
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110CORNISH EXPRESS Evening Star, Issue 19632, 11 August 1927, Page 6
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