26 SEPTEMBER 1868, Page 3

The charge against the Llanddulas stationmaster, Samuel Eaton, has brought

out the fact that, but for the escape of the petroleum trucks, there would have been no danger of collision, as had pre- eriously been supposed. The danger signals were properly set,— they were visible at a distance of 1,400 yards from the point where the trucks were stopped,—and the driver of the train says that he could easily have stopped his train in 60 yards after seeing the signals. Unfortunately, the standing trucks, though the break was on, received a jar from other trucks, and were so set off down the incline, and met the mail train 2,600 yards from Llanddulas, or 1,200 yards beyond the point where the danger signals become visi- ble. Hence, the cause of the mischief was either the insufficiency -of the breaks, or the system which allowed such an operation at all 'within so short a time of the arrival of a fast train.