RAILWAY DISASTER
EVIDENCE AT INQUIRY
CONSTRUCTION OF COACHES INTERESTING STATEMENT [ British Official Wirelees.] RUGBY, Dec. 16. At the Castlecary inquiry at Edinburgh, Sir Nigel Gresley, chief engineer of the London and NorthEastern Railway, said that the carriages were made with heavy steel underframes and solid teak end sections. It was not possible to make a carriage to withstand the impact of a great engine rushing into it at 50 miles an hour. It must collapse at the end. If it were possible to have a carriage which would not collapse, which was solid armour plating, the energy would be imparted throughout the train. In such a train there would not be any injured bui everybody would be killed by the impact. There was no telescoping in the true sense of the Castlecary accident. It was a case of overrunning rather than telescoping. The coach construction of the company’s stock was not decided on through reasons of economy. Weight for weight, the type of coach used was stronger structually than steel.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 300, 18 December 1937, Page 9
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