ARBROATH RAILWAY DISASTER.
Received March 14, 9.48 a.m. LONDON, March 13. Gourlay, driver of the express in the Arbroath disaster, has been sentenced to five months' imprisonment. (In December last the North V British express, .travelling at twenty miles an hour, dashed into the station where the train from Arbroath to * Dundee was awaiting the signal to proceed. The stationary train was telescoped. Gourlay, the driver of the express, was thrown clear, but I the fireman was pinned underneath. Twenty passengers were killed, including Mr A. W. Black, Liberal M.P. for Banffshire. It was alleged that the danger signal was up, but Gourlay declared that' the signals showed the line clear. Subsequently at was cabled that Gourlay was charged with homicide and drunkenness, which he denied.)
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8381, 15 March 1907, Page 5
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126ARBROATH RAILWAY DISASTER. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8381, 15 March 1907, Page 5
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