RISKY TRIP

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 85, 7 October 1938, Page 8

RISKY TRIP

TOP OF A TRAIN

A DESPERATE SCOT

(By Air Mail, from "The Post's" London Representative.)

LONDON, September 12.

A Scotsman named Angus McLeod was fined £3 at Bletchley, Bucks, after he travelled on the roof of the Night Scot express from Euston. He was found guilty of travelling without paying or intending to pay his fare and of travelling on the roof of a railway carriage, contrary to L.M.S. bylaws. v j Mr. B. Hill, Bletchley stationmaster, said that McLeod would be in extreme danger and three other witnesses all said that he would be endangering his own life, but not necessarily endangering anyone else. Harold Francis Toombs, station foreman at Bletchley, said that the Night Scot from Euston was pulled up by the guard with the automatic brake. He saw McLeod jump down from the top of the train and a goods guard tackled him. McLeod said: "I am going to Glasgow," and added that a friend on the train had got the ticket. Police-Sei-geant Merry said that McLeod was "as black as a nigger." McLeod told him: "About 11 o'clock last night I went on No. 15 platform at Euston with a platform ticket. I had a few drinks with my pals, and decided to try to get back to Glasgow. I was short of money, as I had been paid off the railway since August 13, and I could not afford a ticket. The ticket collector ordered me off the train, but I walked the length of-a coach and got into a carriage, and then on the roof." McLeod had 53d on him when detained.