Station Name: SOUTH GOSFORTH


[Source: Alan Young & Brian Johnson]


An incident at South Gosforth involving the derailment of an electric unit on 18 November 1923. The collision was a converging one between a mineral train travelling towards Newcastle on the up main line, and an empty carriage electric train, which was moving over the trailing crossover between the down and up main lines immediately east of South Gosforth East Junction. The formation is on embankment here, and east of the Junction there is a skew bridge under the railway over the main road running north-west. And south-east. The engine and tender of the mineral train broke through the parapet of this bridge and fell 20 feet into the roadway. As a result the fireman, George Twizell, way killed on the spot, and the driver, Harry Prince, so severely injured that he died about five hours later. The Ministry of Transport report written by Major G L Hall (RE) concluded that the primary cause was driver error with the driver of the mineral train passing a signal at danger.
Photo from Jim Lake collection


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