GUARD'S OVERSIGHT.
IN AISGILL DISASTER,
NEGLECTED DUTY PASSING AN IMPORTANT STATION.
By Telejra-ph—Press-Association—Copyright London, September IG. At the Board of Trade Inquiry into tlm railway disaster on the Midland Railway, at Aisgill, Yorkshire, Walker, the guard of the colliding train, testified that he was studying tho time-table when the train was passing tho Mallerstang Station, and did not notice tho signals. Ho was aware that under tho rules guards must relinquish work when passing important stations. Tho Midland Company's wagon superintendent testified that the two trains carried altogether fifteen fire extinguishers, twelve hand-saws, twelvo hatchets, twelve hammers, twelve lamps, twelvo pinch-bars, and six chisels, besides extra tools and lamps on tho engines. The superintendent added that tests had been niado of tho cylinders recovered intact. Tho tests showed that no gas could have beon left in tho exhaust cylinders two and a half minutes after the accident; hence, it was evident that tho fire had originated in the driver's ashpan, and a statement by a passenger that he saw a gas jet burning was erroneous.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1858, 18 September 1913, Page 7
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175GUARD'S OVERSIGHT. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1858, 18 September 1913, Page 7
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