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Croydon's Weekly Standard, September 20th 1866
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COLLISION.- A correspondent of the Times, writing on Tuesday, says :- I travelled from Bletchley to Rugby this morning on my way to the north. On leaving Wolverton, our train came into collision with a truck which had fallen across the line. We were going very slow at the time. The account given to me by a policeman was, “that the man held the points wrong,” and consequently the truck “toppled over.” The front wheels of the engine were jerked off the line, the middle wheels partly. The policeman added, “it was lucky an express was not coming through,” and I thought so too. The train left Bletchley at 10.35. I think it right to make public this carelessness-especially as there seems to be no increasing vigilance on the part of railway officials. I may add that I was sitting opposite a lady, and the concussion was sufficient to bring us into collision likewise.
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