TRAINS COLLIDE
AT LEAST ELEVEN PERSONS KILLED DISASTER IN LANCASHIRE. VICTIMS PINNED UNDER .WRECKAGE. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 10.5 a.m.) LONDON, December 30. At least eleven persons were killed and about 100 injured when a workers’ special train and a passenger train collided at Eccles, in Lancashire. Many were pinned in the wreckage and could be released only after workmen had stripped the coaches. Doctors and nurses of the Eccles A.R.P. Casualty Service tended the injured.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 31 December 1941, Page 5
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78TRAINS COLLIDE Wairarapa Times-Age, 31 December 1941, Page 5
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