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Original Text (Annotation: EPW016047 / 1390445)
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On a fine morning after rain the driver of the 6.5 a.m. Shaw to Royton four coach empty diesel multiple unit train lost control of it on the steeply falling gradient approaching Royton Station and it collided with the buffer stop at about 40 m.p.h. The buffer stop and a stone wall behind it were destroyed and the leading coach, after dropping some 3 feet to the public road beyond, High Barn Street, and continuing across it, smashed through two houses on the opposite side almost completely destroying them and badly damaging three others.
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