HEROIC ENGINE DRIVER AVERTS A DISASTER
(Rec. 9.10) LONDON, May 19. The driver of a pilot engine stayed at the controls as a Glasgow to Euston express, with its brakes screeching thundered down on him on the same set of rails on a hundred-foot high viaduct, at Lambrigg, in Westmoreland. He thought fasf, kept his head, and put his light engine in reverse so as to reduce the force of the impact. The pilot engine was just getting under way, in reverse, when a crash occurred in the centre of the viaduct. Both of the engines and three of the thirteen crowded coaches of the express left the rails, but they remained upright—six inches from the edge of the viaduct. As a result of the pilot enginedriver’s action, only two persons were seriously hurt, and five were slightly hurt, the latter including the driver and fireman of the light engine.
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Grey River Argus, 20 May 1947, Page 4
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