THIS was the scene in October, 1950, when a rail wagon, being shunted in the yard behind the Stag's Head Hotel, St Helens Road, Bolton, jumped the buffer and crashed into an outhouse of the hotel.
The side of the building near the railway line fell in a heap onto the line. Rail workmen cleared enough of the debris to allow trains to pass within an hour of the crash. No one was injured.
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