Re: English Railway Accident

["tony bailey" <mercuryworldtvl@one.net.au>]

For an exciting read the following link was posted to a UK group-

http://www.btopenworld.com/news/news_fullstory_nb/0,2088,UK-243151,00.html

Spare us from the press! And this is Reuters!


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Tony Bailey
Mercury World Travel
Mercury Travel Books
mercuryworldtvl@one.net.au
"Tom C" <tom.clifton@REMOVEvirgin.net> wrote in message
news:3a9d71d1.1706285@news.ntlworld.com...
> On Wed, 28 Feb 2001 23:19:53 +1100, "Paul Hambleton"
> <P.Hambleton@bom.gov.au> wrote:
>
> >See http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_1193000/1193810.stm for
> >details.
> >Looks like really really bad luck for all concerned. It appears from the
> >report that the vehicle fell from a trailer on an adjacent roadway and
> >rolled onto the tracks at the worst possible moment.
> >
> >Paul Hambleton
> >
> I've got tonight's Evening Standard, with photos.
>
> The Land Rover was pulling a station wagon on a trailer. One of the
> vehicles had a blow-out, causing the Land Rover and trailer to veer
> off the motorway, through the crash-barrier, down the cutting and on
> to the track. The driver got out and rang the authorities, but a GNER
> express then hit the vehicles and dreailed, remaining upright. A
> northbound coal train hit the GNER and scattered passenger cars and
> freight wagons all  over the place.
>
> The paper didn't comment about the train drivers' fate. The freight
> loco isn't shown but the leading car of the GNER train (driving van
> trailer) is completely mashed; presumably the driver too.
>
> Tom C
> W Sussex, UK
>
>
>