WORST BLIZZARD FOR YEARS
Miles of Railway Line
Blocked
United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, February 7.
Details to January 27 show how the century's worst blizzard blocked 1500 miles of railway, brought down hundreds of miles of wires, snowed up scores of trains and paralysed England from Land's End to John o’ Groats with snowdrifts sometimes 15 feet deep. A total of 314 snow ploughs charging frozen snowbanks with four engines behind them, were frequently derailed. The worst block near Beattock involved six passenger and two freight trains and a newspaper train. Two hundred soldiers and 120 railwaymen dug for hours from the north to meet 50 soldiers and 120 railwaymen labouring from the south.
A dozen landslides in various districts created further delays.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVIII, Issue 21573, 8 February 1940, Page 7
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