LMS Route: Rugby to Tamworth
Polesworth Station: lnwr_pol3106
An aerial view of the derailed boat train looking towards
Euston with the locomotive nearest to the camera. The MoT report stated that
'the train was crowded with about 800 passengers of whom some 130 were
standing, and I regret to report that four passengers were killed outright and
one succumbed later in hospital. Nineteen passengers were detained in hospital
with serious injuries, and a further 45 persons, including six members of the
dining car staff, and a travelling carriage cleaner, sustained minor injuries
or shock. The driver and fireman were uninjured, and the former went forward at
once to protect the opposing lines.'
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