2 FEBRUARY 1929, Page 3

The inquest on the victims of the Ashchurch railway disaster

was held on Friday, January 25th, at Cheltenham. The Coroner said that although all the evidence showed that the signals were in proper working order, he could not hold that the driver of the mail train (which collided with the goods train) had been wilfully negligent. Apparently the driver (who was killed) did not see, through the fog, that the signal was against him. He would presumably have been stopped by detonating fog-signals if there had been any, and the jury added a rider to their verdict of accidental death that the railway companies might consider speedier methods of putting down detonators.

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