ALMOST A DISASTER.
EXPRESS BROUGHT TO STANDSTILL ON VIADUCT.
(By Telegraph-Press Assn.-Copyriglrt.) (Received This Day, 10.25 a.m.) LONDON, Oct. 4th. * A double-seated express from Aberdeen to London was racing towards the, Don of Logie viaduct, bridging a steep gorge, when the air reservoir fell from the second engine and derailed it and three carriages and the dining car. The leading engine, which was under wonderful control, was brought to a utandsti.'l, just as the derailed carriages were scraping the piles at the edge of the viaduct. There were no casualties.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 5 October 1927, Page 5
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