MILNGAVIE JUNCTION 1890
In the course of researching my family tree, I discovered that my great great grandfather, James Galbraith, had been in a train crash ......
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LONDON DAILY NEWS 29 AUGUST 1890
COLLISION ON THE NORTH BRITISH RAILWAY
MANY PASSENGERS INJURED
A serious collision happened yesterday on the North British Railway at Milngavie Junction, the morning train from Milngavie running into a goods train which was shunting. Upwards of 30 passengers were hurt, but none are killed. The injured were lifted on to the bank and doctors sent for. It is stated that the passenger driver failed to notice that the signal was against him. The guard of the passenger train was most seriously hurt. The passengers were principally business men bound for Glasgow. The uninjured passengers proceeded to the Helensburgh line, where they got into one of the coast express trains and proceeded to Glasgow.
Passengers who were in the Milngavie train state that all went well till the junction was reached. There was then a sudden and awful bump. The windows were broken, and the travellers were knocked against one another.
The first-class passengers suffered most. At once there was a fearful scurry to get out, and it was discovered that over 20 passengers were complaining. They were helped on to the bank, and had their heads and limbs bathed. It was now seen that the passenger engine was locked in the one attached to a goods train. The Milngavie line is a single one, and at the time of the collision the driver of the passenger train was slowing in order to hand the baton out to the signalman, but failed to notice that the signal was against him, and dashed into the goods engine, which was about to cross the junction. The goods train suffered the most. The guard of the passenger train, it is reported, had his jaw broken. The doctors report that they believe that none of the injured will succumb. Several of them are suffereing from severe shocks, while not a few have received bad bruises on the head. One gentleman had his nose broken. The District Superintendent, on hearing of the accident, left Glasgow for the scene of the accident. Only the buffers and windows of the passenger train have been damaged.
A Glasgow Correspondent telegraphed last evening that the number of injured had so far been ascertained to be thirty-one. Archibald Moir, the driver of the Milngavie train, had been taken into custody and removed to Clydebank. It is probable, however, that he will be liberated on bail. If not, he will be taken to Dumbarton today. The driver of the goods train, John Campbell, and the stoker, Dalziel Peebles, jumped off their locomotive and were saved, while the stoker of the passenger train, when he saw that a collision could not be averted, lay down amongst the coal, and also was saved.
The list of known injured up to latest advices is as follows:-
Mr McLaren, Bearsden, several cuts about the face.
Mr Scott, Mossfield, Bearsden, scalp wound.
Miss Galbraith, face severely cut.
Mr James Galbraith, leg badly hurt.
Mr James Galbraith, Jnr, face bruised.
Walter Mitchell, Hillend, Milngavie, knee cut and contusions of face.
Mr Sutherland, Bearsden, contusion of the right eye.
Mr Higgins, injuries to head.
J D Christie, Ardarrock, face bruised.
J F Andrews, Thorncliff, injuries to head.
W D Christie, Bellslee, leg injured, and contused face.
Mr Fraser, Bearsden, shock to system.
Mrs McIntosh, Upper Norwood, shock to system.
Mr G Crawford, Bearsden, face bruised.
Mr Alexander Munro, Bearsden, contusion of face and shock to system.
Mr Russell, bruised head.
Richard Jackson, rendered insensible and injured about the body. (Mr Jackson and his wife, who was wounded on the temple, were going on a trip to the Continent).
J C Milaurin, nose badly broken.
J D Boysck, music seller, leg injured.
William Watson, wine merchant, Milngavie, cut on temple.
James Gardner, Milngavie, knee twisted.
A little boy, son of Archibald McColl, of Ravenscroft, also sustained a severe shock.
Robert Hendry, Emerald Hill, severely cut about the head.
Mr Walter Drummond, nervous shock.
Andrew Gray, shock and injury to neck.
John Weir, Railway Inn, cut leg.
Thomas Graham, farmer, Baldernock, right eye cut.
Robert Young, Callart, injury to head and ear.
J Gardner, Ebony-terrace, leg cut.
William Young, shock.
Walter Mitchell, face cut.
H M Chrichton, Bearsden, forehead cut.
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