Early on Tuesday morning a goods train was travelling on the up slow line, when just outside Castlethorpe Station a wagon axle broke. The train kept on its course, the broken wagon, which contained a consignment of vegetables, bumping on chains and sleepers, and doing considerable damage, about 100 chairs being literally smashed to pieces. This went on till Castlethorpe Station was reached, when the wagon, with others following it jumped the platform, doing more damage, at the same time completely blocking the up slow line, and particularly the down slow line. The breakdown gang from Bletchley was at once called to the scene, and traffic began to resume its normal course about 10 a.m.
