29 JANUARY 1921, Page 3

There was a very bad accident on the Cambrian Railway

on Wednesday. The express from Aberystwyth, running on the single line between Newtown and Abermule, crashed into a local train going to Aberystwyth. Both trains were wrecked. Seventeen persons were killed—among them Lord Herbert Vane-Tempest, a director of the Railway—and thirteen were badly injured. The guard of the express and the driver and fireman of the local train were among the dead. It is not known why the local train was allowed to leave Abermule, where the express should have passed it.