RAILWAY COLLISION

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXV, Issue 79, 16 March 1935, Page 7

RAILWAY COLLISION

Four Trains Involved SERIOUS HOLD-UP CAUSED By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright LONDON, March 15. A four-fold railway smash at King’s Langley, on the London, Midland and Scottish line, which severed the main artery between London and the North, caused the most serious hold-up for years and delayed traffic throughout half of England. a milk train experienced brake trouble which was repaired. The train had started again when a goods train dashed into the rear, flinging wreckage on to two adjoining lines. Then a coal train and a meat train travelling in different difcctions crashed into the scattered trucks, which were piled up on top of each other. The debris covered a quarter of a mile. 1' ortunately the driver of one train, remembering that the Scottish express was approaching, set off with fog signals which he laid on the line and thereby prevented what might have been a gigantic disaster. William Buckley, the 60-year-old engine-driver of the milk train, is missing and is believed to have been buried in the wreckage while he was running to warn the approaching trains. Three people were injured. SYDNEY ACCIDENT Van Smashed to Match-wood SYDNEY, March 15. With a terrific, crash, an electric train charged into a goods train on the North Shore line, near Gordon. The front carriage of the electric train smashed a stationary guard’s-van to match wood and landed completely on top of three trucks, leaving its 11 occupants 12 feet above the line. The only person who was injured was taken to hospital suffering from shock.