RAILWAY ACCIDENTS
A STRANGE SERIES. PARIS, Monday. A strange series of railway accidents linked the closing stages of the Duke and Duchess of Kent’s honeymoon, which ends, to-inorow, when they arc due at London by air. Train services from the Spanish frontier to Paris were disorganised on 12th April, owing to telegraph poles being blowm down across the track, so the Duke and Duchess were compelled to motor from the frontier to Bayonne, where they caught the express. This was later delayed ow'ing to a bridge catching fire, but the Duke and Duchess reached Paris on time.
The same express, travelling at 60 miles an hour on the same route the following night near Bordeaux, jumped the rails and was wrecked, three persons being killed and 12 injured.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 16 April 1935, Page 5
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