Miss Reed, one of those killed, had been to visit her fiance, Mr. A.
Brooks, of Hunter Road, Willes-borough. They were t@ have been married this year.
Mr. Brewer, a son of the late Rev. and Queen's College, Cambridge. He was a member of the Royal Aeronautical Society and of the Cinque Ports Flying Club.
A few months ago his_engagemeat io Miss Aileen Maconachie, daughter of the late Rev. J. H. Maconachie, of Newcastle and' Ardoch, Perthshire, and of Mrs. Maconachie, of Benton, Northumberland, was announced.
Miss Bailey was a parlour-maid at the house of Mr. and Mrs. W.-R. Younger, in Princes-gardens, Kensing-
home near Bromley, Kent.
Sie was returning -from her Embedded in Bank became diverted into the dead~ The tism, carrying 200 passenger', 4p" siding at Swanley Junction for some reason so far unexplained. Two empty coaches which were standing there were telescoped and the first coach of the train was forced into the air, A man who was standing on the platform at the time of the accident, said: "The train passed through the station at more than 50 miles an hour. Then it stopped abruptly. There was 3 flash, and the front part of the train reared up into the air, then collapsed."
'The engine' became embedded in a high bank of the siding. Its boiler was broken and boiling water and steam poured out. The driver and fireman escaped injury.
In response to an urgent S O S from Swanley. police, ambulances were sent from Dartford, five miles away, and Farningham, two miles away. Many passengers were treated on the spot and the more seriously injured were taken to Dartford County Hospital.
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