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Train crash near Pothuhara sation
The collision of the Batticaloa-Colombo mail train and Jaffna-Colombo mail train, a 1½ miles from the Pothuhara railway station, caused the destruction of the compartments as shown.
The Times of Ceylon Press
Another view of the derailment, showing one of the coaches reduced to matchwood after it had telescoped into another. The electric fitting crashed to the floor as a result of the impact.
The Times of Ceylon Press
Train leap-frogging at Blackpool
Six persons were killed and 120 injured, recently, when a holiday express crashed into a stationary train at Blackpool. The express 'leap-frogged' over the train: picture shows survivors stumbling across a field, dazed and shaken.
The Times of Ceylon Press
In 1912 the contributor of the photographs, reproduced on this and the three following pages, trekked by camel caravan from the border of British Somaliland to the Arussi mountains of Abyssinia, passing, on his way, through Jigjiga, Harrar and the...
The Times of Ceylon Press
Triple derailment. Acheres, France: Three trains are strewn across the twisted rails of the main Paris-Le Havre Line, here, after a triple derailment this morning. Four plate-layers were killed and six people injured. The crash occurred near the G...
The Times of Ceylon Press
Triple train collision on the Japan National Railways
A view of the triple train collision on the Japan National Railways Tokaido line near Namamugi, Yokohama, showing rescuers recovering bodies and injured persons. More than 160 persons were killed in this railway disaster on November 9th. The disas...
The Times of Ceylon Press
Two Men Narrowly Escaped From Death
Two men narrowly escaped death when an embankment they were digging at Bandarawela collapsed, burying them in earth up to their necks. It took three hours to extricate them - and all the time there was the danger of the embankment collapsing. The ...
The Times of Ceylon Press
The scene at Ella where two diesel engines coupled together crashed into "Udarata Manike".
The Times of Ceylon Press