RAILWAY MISHAP AT STRATFORD
Trucks and Van Break Away From Train By Telegraph.—-Press Association. Stratford, January 9. Four trucks and the guard’s van broke away from a goods train proceeding from Stratford to Now Plymouth early tin's morning and ran three miles on Ihe downgrade, travelling through Stratford station at a speed estimated at GO miles an hour. The driver of a waiting train saw the trucks coming and whistled to the signalman for a backshunt, the runaways thus being turned off the main line to a portion of the shunting triangle. After speeding for some distance over this line the trucks were brought to a standstill when the van crashed into the buffers at the end of the line and ploughed its way through soft earth for over twenty yards.
Two trucks remained on the line and were removed, while the two others, twenty-ton wagons laden with frozen meat, were embedded in the earth. No damage was done to the track, but the rolling stock was damaged.
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 90, 10 January 1935, Page 10
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168RAILWAY MISHAP AT STRATFORD Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 90, 10 January 1935, Page 10
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