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ENGLAND'S TERRIBLE RAIL- WAY DISASTER.

OFFICIAL INQUIRY.

Colonel Sir John Pringle opened at Darlington the Ministry of Tran- sport inquiry into the railway dia- aster which occurred there on Wednesday night, when a parcels train and an excursion train crowd- ed with people. returning from Scarborough to their homes on Tyneside camo into collision, twenty-five passengers losing their Ilves and about fifty being Injured.

The Inquiry was held in the same upper room of the L.N.E.R. district superintendent's office in which on the previous day the Coroner, Mr. J. T. Proud, opened the inqueat on the twenty-Ave dead and adjourned it until July 17.

Sir John Pringle, after expressing sympathy with the friends of the sufferers, explained that the inquiry was purely for the purposes of the Ministry of Transport. It was not an inquiry which had to do with

either criminal or civil action, but representatives of the men con- cerned and the London and North- Eastern Railway Company them selves had raised no objection to his holding the inquiry in public, and as there was naturally public. interest he had decided to do so.

BIGNALMAN CLEAR.

Robson said that he did not speak to the driver of the train as it was passing. It was not customary to warn verbally the driver that hie train was accepted under caution, as the lowering of the calling-on arm had always been taken to indicate that the caution had been accopted.

Sir John: It is clear that there is no responsibility on this man at all. The rules say, “A greet signal and ja verbal warning have to be given unless a fixed warning signal is provided."

Thomas Walls, in charge of the Darlingtori South signal box, sald that he had been there. fourteen years out of his thirty-nine years as a signalman, and had forty-six years' railway service. The night the disaster occurred was Ane, and there was a good view generally of the signal lights. He accepted the parcels train under caution, and when he had done so the excur alon" train from Scarborough was offered to him on the down main Ine at 11.1 "I refused. it at the time," he added,

Sir John Pringle: Why?

ROBBERY ECHO,

CLAIM FOR LOSS ON INSUR- ANCE POLICY.

ACTION FAILS.

A £20,000 Jewel rabbery in Paris was mentioned in an action by Mr. Nissim M. Rožines, a jeweller, of Paris, to recover for the loss from Mr. John W. Bowen, a Lloyd's un- derwriter, on a jewellers' block policy,

The robbery, took place at Mr. Rozines shop in Rue de Castig lione on August 23, 1920. Half the stolen jewellery belonged to Mr. Bozanes and half to customers. The stock had been insured with Lloyd's underwriters for £40,000.

Mr. Bowen contended there had been non-disclosure of material facts when the policy was taken out because, although the proposal form mentioned only the loss of a neck- lace

Rozanes had had other losses,

worth 4,000 francs, Mr.

Mr. Rozanes replied that ho gave full particulars of his losses to a Mr. Alfred Hacco, a Paris insurance

walls, replied, "I cannot give the

After consulting his books, agent.

reason for the refusal. I accepted the excursion train at 11.2 p.m. It was passing my box at 11.8 when the collision took place."

I ex-

Hacco did not enter them on the

now dead, but that Mr.

proposal form.

Mr. Justice Wright held that there had been non-disclosure of material facts, and he ruled against Hacco was Lloyd's agent. Mr. Rozanes' contention that Mr.

Judgment was entered for Mr. Powen with costs.

1 did not observe the movements Replying to Sir John, Walls said,

of the parcels train after I had accepted it under caution. pected it would come to a standstill at the duplicate line."

James Garrett, assistant signal-put the brakes full on it would have

divided the train. man in the South Junction box, who said that he had thirty-five

One of the representatives of the L.N.E.R. associated himself with the words of the Inspector.

Mr C. T. Cramp, on behalf of the National Union of Railwaymen, also joined in the expressions of sympathy and said that in regard to the relations between the rail-years' railway service and twenty- way company and the men they had eight years as a signalman, ex always been on common ground in pressed the opinion that the excur working for the safety and efficiency slon train, when it passed the box, of the railway service. "We have,"

must have been travelling at be he said, "all prided ourselves on tween thirty and forty making it the safest and most hour. efficient method of transport in the world."

Mr. J. Bromley, M.P., on behalf of the Associated Society of Lo- comotive Engineers and Firemen, endorsed Mr. Cramp's remarks.

miles an

"SIGNALS AGAINST US,”

James Henry Sharpe, the guard John what Morgan's evidence was, of the parcels train, heard from Sir including his statement that he did to the fullest extent, and Sir John not apply the Westinghouse brake asked: What would you have done? Sharpe: Once I had the brake on I should never have taken it off,

William Morley, foreman at

Sir John; What drew your at Darlington Station, said that the tention to anything wrong?-Be-parcels train usually stopped in fore the collision occurred my at- the centre of the platform, bat on tention was drawn to a noise in the Wednesday night it was sent to the lever frame, a clicking sort of noise. | south end of the platform because Before we decided actually what of the excursion train due at 10,44 was the cause of the noise, I realised and only running one minute late.

Asked by Sir John what he would have done if he had been in the position of the shunter and seen the signals at danger, Moreley said, "I would have stopped the train. dead and so attracted the driver's attention by that."

THE PARCELS TRAIN. John Thomas Robson, signalman at Platform East Signal Box, Dar-that there raust be aomething lington, the first witness, who has wrong, so I at once threw the down been fifty-two and a half years in main signal to danger. the service of the company, and "Drivers have told me before about seven years a signalman at now," Garrett sald, "that they Darlington Platform East, de- thought number fourteen signal scribed how he was instructed by was a calling on signal, whereas the station foreman to allow the it is a shùnt signal.”. parcels train to run to the south section, No. 1, from the south side of the Scissors Crossing and did

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Before sending the parcela train on he had offered the train to the signalman at South Junction and obtained acceptance of the warning "under caution." This would be about 10.47 p.m.

"I lowered my home signal, No. 9, as the train was approaching" said Robson. "The calling-on arm on No. 11 was not lowered until the engine had passed No. 9." That, he explained, was in accord, ance with practice, following printed instructions in the signal box. Nos. 8 and 9, added Robson, informed the driver that he must proceed into the next section "at caution."

Sir John Pringle: Does No. 7 or

10 tell the driver that the home signals will be cleared? No, it "on caution." merely tells him that he is accepted

He would be entitled to assume that he was not going to be stop ped? No. Robson explained that the parcels train was dealt with by the shunter, and that the engine and three waggons were detached, Then the remaining vehicles were pushed back by an engine on to the

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1, 1928.

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Vernon Reginald Bryant, the Michael Morgan, an assistant fireman of the excursion train, shunter, with twenty-seven years said that the train left Scarborough railway Bervice, described the on time at 8.55 p.m. It was check- shunting operations with the parcela ed by distance signals at one or train, and, coming to the depar- two places before leaving Darling- ture from Darlington Station ton South Junction, and the brake FAMOUS BUILDINGS. which the driver applied was in said:-

good order.

"I rode in the van at the rear of the parcels train. When we got to the end of the station. I saw the At that signals were against us. time the engine would be under neath the signals, and it was not making any effort to stop.

"I immediately pulled my West- inghouse tap in the van. When I got within ten yards of the signals the speed of the train had been re- duced so much that I heard an en- gine whistling, and I took it thei it was my engine whistling. It was a short, a long, and a short. I put my Westinghouse back to normal and rushed to the door to see if the signals were off or on.

35 MILES AN HOUR. On passing the junction signal box the signals, as far as he could The speed of the see, were clear.

hour.

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Experts are alarmed at the train was about thirty-five miles an peril caused by traffic vibration to He did not notice the down some of London's most famous main starting signal put to danger before the train passed. On seeing buildings. The "Sunday Express" no obstruction before understands that a thorough sur- there was actually passing the signal box, he vey of the central area has been began firing.

ordered. "I had stopped, and was looking

The Nelson Column and the worry, but those of new out when I saw an obstruction. It

Įmodern design. was the headlights of an engine. National Gallery in Trafalgar-

"Old buildings, loosely construct- The driver saw them at the same square, St. Paul's Cathedral, ed, absorb. most of the traffic time, and immediately applied the Westminster Abbey, and the Law vibration without any effect on brakes. It was a full emergency application."

"I looked out of the van upwards

Frederick Hadwin, the guard of to the signals) and saw these were both at danger. I immediately the excursion train, said that the went back to the Westinghouse tap brake, which be tested in his van and pulled the handle until the train at the rear of the train, was in per- had almost stopped.

Then the fect condition.

"The first thing I felt of the ac- crash of the collision came."

cident was when I went through the- Sir John: You acted rightly in ap window. I was sitting on the left, plying the brake.

and

Courts are typical of the notable the structure. It is the modern structures which are threatened, building of steel and concrete & cast iron affair--that is such`a, Delicate instruments, which dangerous conductor of vibra- will register the slightest quiv-tion." er due to the vibration caused Officials from the Office of by passing traffic will be install- Works have had the Nelson ed in buildings aud in the Column under observation for streets.

some time. The gyratory traffic round the square and the vibration from the tubes which run beneath are believed to be causing it to vibrate.

"The question of traffic vibra-

duplicate road back to the station Morgan added that the Westing-and the collision flung me out of the

house tap was not in its normal window on the right. I saved my-tion will come before the science

signals.

out."

The monument was designed originally to allow a sway of

"I put the train on the line at position for more than four seconds. self to some extent by holding on committee of the Royal Institute Sir John: Did you pull it down to the door and supporting myself of British Architects shortly," 13.4, and it proceeded to South

We on the running-board until I fell said Mr. H. V. Lanchester, a pro- Junction.

The engine had passed to its fullest extent? No.

minent architect and a vice-pre- No. 2 signal when I lowered the had travelled thirty yards after the

He estimated the speed of the sident of the institute, to a "Sun-some. inches under the force of THE HONG KONG OPTICAL CO. calling-on arm. The next thing I second application of the brake be-

Morgan stated train at the time of the collision day. Express" representative. 'Phone 2232.

beard was the crash of the collision, fore the collision.

that there were ten vehicles on the miles an hour. Just before he was at between forty and forty-five

Safer When Old. and I did not know it was.

"The situation is undoubtedly {traffle," " parcels train until I was told by, the

flung out of the window he noticed serious, it has been brought to An official at the Ministry of signalman at South Junction. 1

that the continuous brake was up our notice several times, and the Health said: "It is almost certain was alone in the box at the time.

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wind pressure. It is thought that this sway has been increased by the street and underground

"FAIRLY BIG BUMP." Sir John: Were the last six vehicles thrown violently back a Sir John Pringle adjourned the Central Hall accident-when that some steps will have to be boy was killed and seven other taken, both by the London good many yarda?-No, it was just inquiry sine die, saying he wished people injured by the fall of a cell-County Council and the Ministry a bump-a fairly big bamp. Ito take the evidence of the drivers don't think we were pushed back of the excursion and parcels trains has brought matters to a of Health, not only to strengthen buildings that are now being and the fireman of the parcels train head. when they were in a fit condition. "Strangely enough, it la not the erected, but to safeguard those

"The Observer,”

old buildings which cause us already erected."

more than a yard.

Morgan, in reply to questions, said that he was afraid that if he

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