TRAIN ACCIDENT.
THE FLYING SCOTCHMAN.
A REMARKABLE ESCAPE. [By Electric Telegraph- -Copyright] [United .Press Association.] (Received 10.10 a.m.) Loudon, September 14. Five coaches of the "Flying Scotchman" were derailed in the darkness at Chcvington, Northumberland. The train was travelling at the rate of 55 miles an hour. The passengers were severely shaken. There
were some remarkable escapes. The wheels became buried in the ballast, which prevented the train overturning. The permanent way was torn up for two hundred yards. The cause of the accident is a mys-
tery, but was probably duo to all sidenco owing to mining operations.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 12, 15 September 1913, Page 5
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99TRAIN ACCIDENT. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 12, 15 September 1913, Page 5
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