RAILWAY SMASH
EXPRESS TRAIN DERAILED IN SOMERSET 24 PERSONS KILLED AND 60 INJURED. ’ SABOTAGE NOT SUSPECTED. Twenty-four people were killed and sixty injured when an express train bound from London to Penzance was derailed in Somerset, the 8.8. C. reports. The train was crowded, many of the passengers being members of the forces. Three carriages were derailed. The cause of the derailment is not yet known, but an official said it was a pure accident and not the result of enemy action or sabotage. ACCIDENT TO TRACK ABOUT THIRTY PEOPLE KILLED. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.5 a.m.) RUGBY, November 4. About 30 persons were killed and many injured early today, when an excursion passenger train, from London to Penzance, was derailed near Taunton, in Somerset. The tragedy is understood to have been due to an accident to the track, causing the engine and several coaches to leave the rails. Between 30 and 40 persons who were injured, are in hospital. The A.R.P. services assisted in the rescue work, during which several sleeping children were brought out unhurt.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 November 1940, Page 5
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179RAILWAY SMASH Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 November 1940, Page 5
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