We shall have to hanga Railway Board yet. Railway accidents
are beComiog too numerous. The Times of Friday contained a column of them, one of them being really terrible. It occurred on the Great Eastern—a railway which generally contrives to avoid accidents, but which ought to spend a great deal more money upon its permanent way—near Kelvedon. The fast sea-side train was coming up to Kelvedon, when an imperfect rail sprang up and became embedded in a carriage, thus breaking the train. The engine and five carriages, thrown off the rails, fell over the embankment and were smashed, and though only one passenger was killed on the spot, more than twenty others were seriously hurt,—hurt in ways involving injury for life. No servants of the Company appear to have been to blame, but the coroner will have to inquire narrowly into the condition of the line, and the general state of the metals on the Great Eastern.
