TRAINS SAVED FROM LANDSLIDE.
Seeing that there had been &. heavy fall cf tho railway embankment and wall at Coatdyke Bridge, near Airdrie (Lanarkshire), a surfaceman promptly stopped a Glasgow train, and so averted a serious accident. A train which passed over the spot half an hour earlier had a narrow escape from disaster, the fall occurring shortly afterwards. ’ The subsidence is believed to have been caused either by heavy rains <nr by the laying of a new tramway below the railway bridge.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17570, 22 June 1925, Page 12
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