SECOND TRAIN SMASH
AT GRETNA JUNCTION A NUMBER OF CASUALTIES LONDON, Nov. 5. The second train smash within 36 hours occurred at Gretna Junction to-night when the London express collided with a freight train. Two people were killed and 16 seriously injured The German News Agency ascribes the express disaster oh Monday to a well-aimed bomb on a troop transport train, basing the statement on Swedish reports that all the casualties were servicemen. Actually the casualties include at least four women.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24449, 7 November 1940, Page 9
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81SECOND TRAIN SMASH Otago Daily Times, Issue 24449, 7 November 1940, Page 9
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