LEAPS RAILS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 5 January 1931, Page 4

LEAPS RAILS

EDINBURGH-LONDON EXPRESS FOUR PEOPLE KILLED (United Press Association—By Electrlo Telegraph—Copyright) LONDON, 3rd January. The engine of the noon express from Edinburgh to London leaped the rails at a sharp curve near Carlisle, burying its nose in loose stones on the embankment. The first two coaches crashed into the tender and were telescoped, killing four and injuring twelve. The bodies of two men and a woman and a child were recovered from the wreckage with the aid of doctors, nurses and hundreds of helpers. Both lines were blocked necessitating a diversion of traffic.

Apart from twelve seriously injured, fifty were shock injured and sent to hospital. Soldiers from the garrison playing in a Cup tie in an adjacent field accompanied the spectators and participated in the rescues. It is believed that frosty rails caused the engine to jump the metals. According to a spectator it absolutely jumped into the air. SIX DETAINED IN HOSPITAL LONDON, 4th JamviryCuriously two men victims of the Carlisle smash were railway employees going to London. The third victim was a woman whose two sons were injured. The report that a child was killed is erroneous. Only six are detained in hospital.