RAILWAY COLLISION
SECTION OF EXPRESS TWO PEOPLE KILLED LONDON, Oct. 14. (Received Oct. 15, at 7 p.m.) During a blackout, which increased the confusion, the second section of the Scots express collided with the first half, which was standing at the platform at Bletchley station while a light engine was shunting a coach on to the rear of the first section. The driver of the light engine was killed and the engine was hurled on to the platform, demolishing the waiting room and refreshment room, killing & customer. Doctors and first aid workers rushed to the scene and rendered every assistance, being helped by bystanders with electriO torches. A LATER MESSAGE FOUR PEOPLE DEAD LONDON, Oct. 14. (Received Oct. 15, at 10 p.m.) It was later announced that four were dead and five injured. A number of bodies buried in the wreckage have not yet been extricated.
The black-out restrictions were withdrawn in the vicinity of the station and the school was converted into a casualty clearing post.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23940, 16 October 1939, Page 9
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