CHARING CROSS SMASH
DUE TO WRONG WIRING OF SIGNAL. FALSE CLEAR SIGN GIVEN. (Recd This Day, 9.55 a.m.) LONDON, September 19. The report of the Ministry of Transport on the Charing' Cross underground railway smash on May 17 finds that it was due to the wrong wiring of a signal, giving a false clear sign.
Seven passengers were killed and fifty seriously injured on May 17 last, when two trains collided between the Charing Cross and Temple stations. One train partially telescoped the rear carriage of the other, which was almost at a standstill.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 September 1938, Page 5
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94CHARING CROSS SMASH Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 September 1938, Page 5
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