APPALLING RAILWAY DISASTER IN WALES.
ThP British railways are singularly free from accidents. the average of lives lost, in comparison with other systems, being very small: but this winter was marked by two bad smashes the collision near Hawes, Yorkshire, and the disaster a m;.e frmii Pontypridd. Wales.' at the ••nd of January. Our photograph of the Welsh collision. in which •• even people were killed, and eight injured, shows how terrible the impact inibt have been A train with 150 passengers on board was bound for Cardiff from Swansea, and when rounding a curve about a mile from Pontypridd, at thirty miles an hour, dashed into a stationary coal train. The rear trucks and guards van of the coal train were wrecked. 1 he first two coaches of the passenger Haiti were telescoped, the third escaped almost uninjured, but the fourth was baddy rammed.
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLVI, Issue 10, 8 March 1911, Page 23
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144APPALLING RAILWAY DISASTER IN WALES. New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLVI, Issue 10, 8 March 1911, Page 23
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