A very , Serious railway accident occurred at Ashchurch, near Tewkesbury,
about 9 o'clock on Tuesday evening: A L.M.S.express from Bristol to the North ran into a goods train during a dense fog. Four persons were killed and twenty -five were injured—eleven of them seriously enough to be kept in hospital. Most fortu- nately a hose was at hand at Ashchurch station and the few small fires which broke out were quickly extinguished.. Thus a repetition—of the terrible fire at the Charfield disaster was prevented. The past twelve months show a bad record of railway accidents in England. It is impossible, however, for an ()aside observer to say whether there has been some general cause for these accidents, or whether there has simply- been a run of peculiar ill-luck. One's *thoughts turn to- the possibility, of universal automatic signalling, yet it Ashchurch there seems to have been no " human error ". on the part of the.signalman.
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