This spectacular picture records the day when a steam train weighing 70 tons pulling wagons containing more than 400 tons of coal went out of control as it left Daubhill station.
The train roared into the goods yard at Crook Street smashing through the buffers and three houses Amazingly no-one was hurt.
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