A MATTER OF SECONDS
BRITISH RAILWAY SMASH. Sydney “bun” Cable.} LONDON, November 21
The Sheffield express, which was 150 feet long and travelling at 50 miles an hour, would have flashed past safely if tho goods wagon had been derailed two seconds later, said a railwav official when giving evidence at the inquest on the nine persons killed in the Rotherham disaster. A broken draw-bar caused the truck to collapse, and it telescoped six others.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12611, 23 November 1926, Page 7
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75A MATTER OF SECONDS New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12611, 23 November 1926, Page 7
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