- Contributed by听
- CSV Action Desk Leicester
- People in story:听
- Mr and Mrs Wadsworth
- Location of story:听
- Leicester
- Article ID:听
- A4356434
- Contributed on:听
- 05 July 2005
It was a Saturday night when there was "an appalling crash"! The building shook
and Tony's grandfather is quoted as saying: "This is it! I grabbed my wife and dashed downstairs with her.
We had just reached the shop when, what appeared to be a black man (actually a white person covered in coaldust!)
came in. As we stood almost petrified, he turned round slowly and collapsed. Another black man staggered in -
we thought they must be visitors from Mars!"
The crash in fact was made by a goods train engine falling 25 feet into the yard behind the shop after a collision
with a light engine on the parapit above. Miraculously, no-one was killed.
'This story has been submitted to the People's War Website by Lisa Reeves of CSV Action Desk Leicester on behalf of Tony Wadsworth (Mr Wadsworth's grandson) and has been added to the site with his permission. The author fully understands the sites terms and conditions.'
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