CHILDREN ESCAPE IN CRASH

Greymouth Evening Star, 9 August 1935, Page 8

CHILDREN ESCAPE IN CRASH

EXCURSION TRAINS COLLIDE EDINBURGH, June 24. Sixteen hundred and fifty Yorkshire schoolchildren laughed and joked after they had narrowly escaped death or injury in a collision between two L. N. E. R. excursion trains in Waverlcy Station, here, this morning. The first train, containing 900 children from Hull, had stopped in the station and ail the children had alighted when the second train; containing a further 750 children from Patrington, ran into it from the roar. The rear coach of the empty train was lifted clear of the lino by tire engine of the second train, and badly damaged, and the next coach was telescoped. Broken glass was strewn over the platform. Most of the children in the second train were standing up, preparing to alight, and they were thrown on to one another. Broken glass fell among them and several wore cut or suffered from bruises and shock, but none was seriously injured. “Fortunately the train was going very slowly.” said one of the teachers. “Suddenly there was a terrific i crash and above the splintering of the ; coaches 1 heard glass breaking and i the cries of the children. i

"Most of us were thrown off our feet. When 1 scrambled on to the track 1 saw numbers of children doing the. same. Most were laughing and joking ami then? was no panic. We| wore on a day visit, to Edinburgh and

most of our programme was carried through.’’ i