Date: 15/05/2014

THE moment a locomotive collided with the back of the Royal Mail carriage at Great Central Railway in Loughborough has been described as sounding “like a bomb going off”. Sidney James, of Whitehouse Avenue, took a picture after hearing an “explosion” at the back of his house at 12.30pm on May 12.

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Locomotive collision at Great Central

Loughborough Echo

It was like a bomb going off! It shook the house