EN ROUTE FOR GLASGOW.

Mt Benger Mail, 2 November 1938, Page 1

EN ROUTE FOR GLASGOW.

oSCOTSMAN HNED, DESPERATE TO GET HOME. A WILD EIDE. , A Scotsman named Angus McLeod was fined £3 at Bletchley, Bucks, after he had 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. by-laws. The bench found that no prima facie case had been made out on a charge of endangering the Safety of persons travelling on the railway. McLeod was described as a railway labourer, of Green Hill Park, Willesden, London. TRAIN STOPPED. 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. A goods guard tackled him and got him down. McLeod said, “I am going to Glasgow,” and added that his “pal” on the train had got the .ticket . Bertie Reginald Hill, stationmaster at Bletchley, said that It was an extremely dangerous thing to ride on the roof of the train. Police Sergeant Merry said that McLeod was as black as a negro and his eyes were red and inflamed. DIFFICULTY IN KEEPING ON. McLeod told the police sergeant:--“About 11 o’clock at 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 by 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. “The train then started. When it rolled I had difficulty in keeping on. Ten miles from where it stopped it rolled badly and I nearly fell off, so when it stopped in a station I lay flat on the top until I heard the guard shout, when I got down and ran off. “It was a silly thing to do, but 1 was desperate to get home to Scotland. ’ ’ McLeod had sfd in his pockets. On its journey to Glasgow the express reaches a speed of more than 60 miles an hour.