21 AUGUST 1915, Page 3

Last Saturday morning the Irish express from London to Holyhead

was derailed between Stowe Tunnel and Weedon while travelling at sixty miles an hour. Seven coaches were hurled over the embankment, nine persons were killed, and some thirty more or less seriously injured. The accident, as appears from the evidence given at the inquiry held on Tuesday, was due to the axle-pin of an up train flying out as it was passing the Irish express.