LONDON TRAIN SMASH.
CONFUSION IN A FOG. FOUR KILLED: 14 INJURED. A. and N.Z. / LONDON, Aug. 2L A morning rtrain conveying 500 workmen from London to Milton Range halted at the station, two miles beyond Gravesend, where the London County Council is carrying out an extensive road construction scheme. The train overran the platform at Milton, which is temporary and haa no signal box. . Owing to fog, the workmen when crossing the line after leaving the train on the wrong side, did not notice a light engine approaching, which"killed One and cut off another's foot. During the confusion a second workmen's train, in the absence of signals, telescoped ih'e three rear carriages of train in which workmen, awaiting 1 its return to the platform, were buried, beneath debris, three being killed and 14 injured.
Some workmen leaping from the train fell into a canal adjoining the line.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18176, 23 August 1922, Page 9
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147LONDON TRAIN SMASH. New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18176, 23 August 1922, Page 9
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