ANOTHER TRAIN COMES TO STANDSTILL.
SHORTAGE OF STEAM.
DUE TO INFERIOR COAL-
ENQUIRY INTO THE WRECK.
LONDON, Sept. 5.
The Midland Railway Co.'s Glasgow to London express was again held up yesterday for twenty minutes owing to a goods train being stopped through shortage of steam near the scene of the recent disaster.
The Board of Trade inquiry was resumed at. Leeds. The public and press were admitted. Nicholson, the engine-driver of the first train, gave evidence as to his losing time from Carlisle. He was making steam badly owing to the smallness of the coal. He added that drivers were frequently stopped froaa the same cause. Witness admitted that it was dangerous to stop as he did. When he noticed the other train he tried to start his engine but it refused to budge. There was no difficulty in seeing the signal lights. Witness asked for a pilot engine at Carlisle but there .wasn't one there-
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Northern Advocate, 6 September 1913, Page 5
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