THE GRETNA RAILWAY DISASTER
ONLY 50 OF ROYAL SCOTS' 500 SURVIVE CAUSE OF THE ACCIDENT (By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright.) London, May 24. It is estimated that the death-roll of the collision between the troop and passenger train at Grena, near Carlisle, is 1200. Only 50 out of 500 of the Royal Scots escaped unscathed. It is customary to sliunb the local train into the western siding to allow the Eirsfcon express to pass. The siding was occupied by a goods rain, so the signalman sent the local train to tho eastern siding signal. While the train was going in the troop train crashed in and made the apparatus moving tho signals unworkable. It was impossible to" stop the express.
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2471, 26 May 1915, Page 7
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168THE GRETNA RAILWAY DISASTER Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2471, 26 May 1915, Page 7
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