RAILWAY TRUCK IN BEDROOM
At Heck Station, near Selby, Yorks, a loaded coal wagon crashed into the bedroom of tho stationmastcrs house. A King's Cross fish van special, bound for York, owing to engine trouble, was stopped in order to allow the express runing behind time, and at Hcck was stopped in order to allow the express to pass But the signalman, instead of moving the lever to divert the van to another line, threw over the “double points” by mistake, with the result that the train ran into a dead end, where it crashed into a loaded coal wagon The force of the impact sent the wagon clean through Ihe dead end and across the stationmaster’s garden, where it ran through tho wall of tho house and into the bedroom. The guard’s van crashed on to the iwl, knocking out tho gable end. The 6tationmaster and his clerk, who were in tho office, immediately under the bedroom, had a thrilling’escnpe.
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New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11655, 20 October 1923, Page 14
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161RAILWAY TRUCK IN BEDROOM New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11655, 20 October 1923, Page 14
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