'George realised he was not going to be able to stop the train and told his second man to jump off. He was going to follow him. Ken Cloreley did jump and George hung his lunch bag on the horn of the diesel to warn everybody that there was a danger.'
What followed was tragedy and destruction which could have been yet worse – as among the freight was ammunition.
"The driver was George Pike, a Shrewsbury man, and his second man on the diesel was Ken Cloreley, who I think was from Shrewsbury as well. It's funny how you can remember names from so long ago. "Ken Cloreley did jump and George hung his lunch bag on the horn of the diesel to warn everybody that there was a danger. But he never jumped off – he stayed on the train to try to stop it."Malcolm added:"Where the train was coming down, there was a signal box at the end of this loop and the train ploughed through it, demolishing the signal box and unfortunately killing the signalman.
"Unfortunately there was a danger because the train was carrying live ammunition as well, but I don't think there was any fire.
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