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Railway Accident: Report on the Collision that occurred on 28th February 1967 at Stechford

Document Summary

The report into the collision at Stechford between a light engine and a passenger train.

This document was published on 8th December 1967 by His/Her Majesty's Stationery Office.

It was written by Col. D. McMullen.

This item is linked to the Accident at Stechford on 28th February 1967

The original document format was Stapled Book, and comprised 13 pages.

This document was kindly sourced from Wobbly Bob and is in our Accident reports collection. It was added to the Archive on 13th September 2005.

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"The cause of this accident is clear. A movement was being made with the diesel locomotive of the ballast train which was not an authorised movement, and no proper arrangements had been made for it. There was no failure of the signalling equipment, and, as I announced at the end of the public hearing of the evidence, the driver of the Up electric multiple-unit train, who lost his life, was in no way to blame. He could have noticed only at the last moment that the locomotive was moving foul of the path of his train and, although he evidently sounded the whistle, he could have done nothing to avoid the collision."

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