ROTHERHAM TRAIN SMASH
DUE TO BROKEN DRAWBAR
London, November 21. The York-Sheffield express train which collided with a goods train at Rotherham was 150 ft. long and travelling at 50 miles an hour, and would have flashed past safely if the goods wagon had been derailed two seconds later, said a railway official when giving evidence at the inquest on the nine persons killed in the disaster. A broken draw-bar caused the truck to collapse, telescoping six others.— Sydney “Sun” Cable.
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Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 50, 23 November 1926, Page 9
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81ROTHERHAM TRAIN SMASH Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 50, 23 November 1926, Page 9
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