ALMOST A DISASTER.
"FLYING SCOTCHMAN" DERAILED,
By Talegraph—Press Association-Copyright
London, September 14. In tho darkness, .five coaches of tho "Flying Scotchman" express (which was nearly .wrceked a few clays ago by an obstruction on tho line) were derailed at Chcvington, Northumberland. Ihe train wa-s travelling at a speed of fiftyfive miles an hour. The passengers were severely shaken, and there were somo remarkablo oscapes. . , The wheels were buried in the balJast and tjiis prevented the carriages from overturning. The permanent, way was torn up for a distanco of two hundred yards. . Tho cause of tho accident is a mystery; possibly it was duo to subsidence, owing to mining operations.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1856, 16 September 1913, Page 7
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109ALMOST A DISASTER. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1856, 16 September 1913, Page 7
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