The Great Central rail crash Leicester 1949
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Uploaded by TheTonyWadsworth on Apr 9, 2011
It's become a Leicester legend: the night a railway engine and tender derailed and fell into Tommy Wadsworth's backyard in Northgate street. It's still talked about to this day.
The Daily Mail reported it thus:
Elderly Mr & Mrs Wadsworth (Tommy's parents) were reading newspaper reports about Russia's atom bomb -- and feeling just a bit "on edge". It was Saturday night above their son's shop in Northgate street Leicester; and then there was an appalling crash.
"The building shook. I said, 'This is it'...." Mr Wadsworth told me afterwards.
"I grabbed my wife and dashed downstairs with her".
"We had just reached the shop when what appeared to be a black man came in. As we stood almost petrified, he turned slowly around and collapsed. Another black man staggered-in. We thought they must be visitors from Mars."
Author's note: The "black men" were so-described because of the coal dust on their faces.
Here engine driver Percy Banyard recounts the incident.
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