GRANTHAM RAILWAY ACCIDENT.
Received DecemleJ 14,10.5 a.m. LONDON, December 13. The Board of Trade enquiry shows that the primary cause of the Grantham railway accident was due to disregard of a danger signal. The guards are blamed for not applying the brakes soon enough. (The accident occurred on 19th Septemfaer. The Scotch express from King's Cross ran through the station at Grantham, apparently through the brakes not ucting. and on reaching a curve went over an embankment. The carriages caught fire and were reduced to matchwood. Twelve persons were killed, a director of the London and North-Western Bailway being among the number, and sixteen injured, eight of them severely.)
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8312, 15 December 1906, Page 5
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109GRANTHAM RAILWAY ACCIDENT. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8312, 15 December 1906, Page 5
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