TRAINS COLLIDE
FATAL GLASGOW SMASH FIRST THIS YEAR IN BRITAIN SEVERAL DEATHS RESULT FORTY PASSENGERS HURT TRAIN JUMPS THE POINTS British Wireless. ’ Rugby, Sept. 7. The first fatal accident involving passengers on the British railways this year occurred last night when two London, Midland and Scottish passenger trains collided outside St. Enoch’s station, Glasgow, as a result of which a male passenger and engine driver were killed and two women passengers and one fireman died from injuries received in the accident. Forty people are reported to have been injured, some seriously. The cause of the accident is the subject of an official inquiry, but it is believed that at the network of rails one of the trains jumped the points, colliding with a train approaching from the opposite direction. Both engines were derailed and five coaches were damaged. Doctors and ambulance men were promptly on the scene and the passengers were quickly extricated from the damaged coaches and removed to hospitals.
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Taranaki Daily News, 10 September 1934, Page 5
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161TRAINS COLLIDE Taranaki Daily News, 10 September 1934, Page 5
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