Two people suffered broken bones and 29 others were slightly injured today when a train carrying 400 rail enthusiasts on a nostalgia tour hit the buffers at a seaside station in Britain.
One person was taken to hospital with broken ribs while another sustained a broken leg in the incident, which happened at Walton on the Naze in Essex.
The trip, organised by Gloucestershire-based Pathfinder Tours, was billed as the Bone Breaker Railtour and as a "farewell" to Class 58 locomotives before they are decommissioned.
Class 58s are nicknamed "Bones" while Pathfinder Tours said "Breaker" referred to them being sent to the scrapyard.
The firm's managing director Mr Peter Watts said: "It was a play on words. There was no significance until this afternoon."
The service, which left Crewe at 5.30 a.m. and had been due to return to the north-west at 10.55 p.m., was only travelling at about 10mph at the time of the accident
Most injuries were minor and caused by people standing up waiting to disembark.
Local doctors and paramedics from Essex Ambulance Service treated 29 people at the scene.
Mr Watts said day-trippers of all ages had been on-board, adding: "As far as I'm aware, the train was just pulling up normally to the station but for some reason it hit the buffers at a very low speed.
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