EXPRESS CRASH
EXCESSIVE SPEED ALLEGED (Recd. 11.50 a.m.) LONDON, Oct. 4. The Perth-London express crashed on Sunday while changing from a fast line to a slow line, said the Divisional Superintendent of the L.M.S., Mr. J. W. Watkins, at an official inquiry into the disaster. Forty-one were killed and 95 injured. Mr. Watkins said that from the appearance of the wreckage it was estimated. that the speed of the train over the points was more than 50 miles an hour. It was difficult to know why the driver, Sidney Swabey, had not reduced speed. Swabey was a good, reliable man with 37 years’ excellent record. An L.M.S. engineer gave evidence that the limit for the crossing points where the accident occurred was 20 miles an hour. The absolute maximum at which the train might safely have crossed the points was 40 miles an hour. The inquiry was adjourned.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 5 October 1945, Page 5
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