The Archive · 1927

English Railway Disaster

London, Aug. 29.

The official inquiry into the disaster on the Southern Railway on August 24, when 12 persons were killed anda large number injured as a result of the derailment near Sevenoaks of a train journeying from London to Deal, has disclosed that a pair of wheels of the engine left the metals 500 yards before the crash. The driver, one of those jured, testified that the engine was one of the new River type which had a tendency to roll when travel-

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