And Now Goodbye
by James Hilton
The defeat of the Redford Railway was a bad job. That cold November morning, the London-Manchester Express, gleaming with sunlight and a thin layer of snow in the fields, slammed into a van that strayed from the exterior cladding onto the main line. The engine and the first two cars derailed; scattered slags set the wreckage on fire; and fourteen people died in the first ram. Some, unfortunately, were not killed directly. What's interesting is that even when all the names of the people who might have boarded that train that morning were collected and investigated, there were still two charred bodies and both women, which were still completely unexplained.
