Replacement transport due to service disruption

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Another report from the Merthyr Express could have been called "Common sense prevails"

31 July 1915
Railway Accident A railway accident occurred at Fochriw on Friday last. A goods train was nearing the station when the coupling between the guard's van and a passenger coach broke. The guard's van was thrown across the 6ft way. Before the train was brought to a standstill, the coach, which contained no passengers, also left the metals, tearing up the permanent way as it was borne along. The line between Deri and Fochriw being a single one, the Newport to Brecon train, which was full of passengers, could not proceed. Within an hour, the four o'clock train steamed into Fochriw station bound for Newport. This train also was held up. It was eventually decided to change trains, so that passengers from the up train walked to the station to take their places in the down train, and the down train passengers walked to the spot below the smash to join the up train. Colliers and others helped to transfer luggage from one train to the other. A breakdown gang was soon on the scene, and by six o'clock the van and coach had been removed from the permanent way.