RAILWAY COLLISION

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2716, 10 March 1916, Page 5

RAILWAY COLLISION

BOARD OF TRADE REPORT

By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright London, March 8. The Board of Trade report on the collision at St. Bede Junction, East Jarrow, on the North-Eastern railway, on December 17 last, recommends the exclusive use of electricity for lighting trains. I'l'lie disaster resulted m the death of twelve persons and tho serious injury of between forty and fifty others. It was caused by a passenger train colliding during a dense fog with a pilot engine, and an empty passenger train proceeding on the down line crashing into the wreckage. The engines woro thrown over an embankment, and the coaches took fire and burnt fiercely. The passenger train was from South Shields to Newcastle, and was heavily laden with workmen and business people. The engine of this, the pilot engine, and the engine of tho train that ran into the wreckage were all hurled over an embankment. Such was the force of tho collision that the j first carriage of the passenger train, consisting of the guard's van and two passonger compartments, was telescoped, and a portion of the sccond carriage was wrecked. Almost immediately fire broke-out. apparently'in consequence of ■ras and in a few minutes the whole of the front part of the train was blazing furiously, two other coaches m addition to the wrecked ones being involved.]