TRAIN COLLISION IN ENGLAND.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 612, 18 October 1913, Page 5

TRAIN COLLISION IN ENGLAND.

SEVEN KILLED: MANY INJURED. London, Thursday. Another accident involving loss of life occurred yesterday. A boat-train from the Central Station at Liverpool "collided with an express train bound for Warrington, Btanding in a tunnel outside St. James' station st Liverpool. The last coach of the standing train was smashed to atoms, while the next two or three carriages were telescoped. Seven dead bodies were extricated from the ruins, while. 18 others were injured, several being so badly hurt that their prospect of recovery is regarded as hopeless. The accident is attributed by a passenger to the fireman of the standing train piling on coal while m the tunnel, the resultant smoke and steam obscruing the signals for the on coming boat-train.

SIGNALMAN'S MISTAKE. THOUGHT LINE WAS uLEAR. London, Friday. The preliminary investigation into the Liverpool tunnel collision which resulted in seven being killed and eighteen injured, shows that a boy in the central signal box at Liverpool frequently attends to the telephone. He answered the call on Wednesday while the signalman was busy with the levers, and the signalman, thinking that the message was that the first train was clear, pulled the lever admitting the express. Then on second thoughts, he asked the boy what the message was, and was told it referred to another train. He then realised his awful mistake, j and set tbe tunnel lights against the express, but this did not prove sufficient to stop the train.