MAJOR TRAIN SMASH
Recei vedv Fi;i("|t|§ 9. 25 . 'p.m. " j. a ' ' f/ONDOX', Jan. 3. Eive person^ Avere killed, 15 seriouslyinjured and between 20 and 30 slighth injured Avhen the night mail from Liverpool Btreot (London) to 1'eter borough, crashed during a fog into the rear of a Southend passenger train which was standing in Gidea Park station, 13 miles from London. Tavo coaches of the stationar-y train were telescoped. Both coaches, wliieh were packed, were reduced to a mass of tAA'isted steel. The injured were strewn over the traek and platforms. Doetors and nurses transformed the waitingrooms into emergency dressing stations. Visibility was down to three feet at the time of the crash. The engine oi the mail train was thrown off the liri" and the Avreckage piled 011 top of it but both the driver and flreman escaped uninjured. A third train from Stratford narrow Iv avcried crashing into the Avreckage. H pulled np 10(1 yards from the sta tion.
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Chronicle (Levin), 4 January 1947, Page 5
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