STOPPED IN TIME
ACCIDENT ON BRITISH TRAIN DRIVER KILLED BY BURST ENGINE TUBE Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, January 29. (Received January 30, at 12.40 p.m.) Noticing that excessive speed had been reached the guard on a train from Tring to Boston applied the emergency brakes and stopped it. He found the driver killed and the fireman seriously injured by a burst tube in the engine. George Lambournc, the fireman crawled through scalding steam and reached the controls after the engine driver had been hurled on to the track by an engine pipe bursting in a tunnel. Lanibourne, despite scalds, controlled the train but was blinded and unable to see the station lights. The guard, noticing the escaping steam, applied the emergency brakes and stopped the train at VVatford. “ An explosion occurred in the tunnel. I don’t know what happened,” gasped Lambourne, who was found groaning with pain on the footplate. He was sent to hospital in a serjous condition.
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Evening Star, Issue 21632, 30 January 1934, Page 9
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159STOPPED IN TIME Evening Star, Issue 21632, 30 January 1934, Page 9
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