FAST TRAIN DERAILED.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 12 August 1924, Page 10

FAST TRAIN DERAILED.

MAN SLEEPS THROUGH AN ACCIDENT Seven coaches of the L.N.E.R. Lon-don-to-Aberdeen express were derailed at 6 o’clock in the morning' near Buddon Station, about eight miles from Dundee, while the train was going at about 60 miles an hour, but not one of the hundreds of passengers was injured. One elderly man slept through it and awoke to find his carriage at rest axle-deep several yards off the track. Seven coaches were derailed and the rear coach left the rest and dived into Barry golf course, the wheels being deeply embedded in the fairway. The golf fence was ripped up for 300 yards. fortunately the carriages maintained an upright position. The guard applied the brakes when he felt the swaying and bumping of the vehicle off the metals, and it is thought that this saved the derailed coaches from collapsing broadside. The passengers transferred to the undamaged portion of the train, resumed'their journey north about an hour and a half later. It is said that part of the gear of one of the coaches became detached and fell among the wheels, causing the coaches to leave the rails. ”