The driver and his second man were trapped when their diesel train smashed into the back of another train in fog near Finsbury Park Station today. For 20 minutes firemen wrenched at the twisted metal of the cab to free the men.
As they did so they chatted to driver William Jackson, 37 - He was trapped by his legs and his mate. John Sygrove.
hen they were free. Ambulancemen broke a hole in wooden fencing near the edge of the track and carried Mr. Jackson on a stretcher up the grassy bank through the hole and 100 yards to the ambulance.
Mr. Jackson of Crentham Green, Boreham Wood. Herts was taken to the Royal Northern Hospital with leg injuries.
Second man, Sygrove, aged 18 of Romford Road, Manor Park was taken to hospital but left after treatment.

Said a raillwayman: "The trapped men didn't panic at all. We talked to them and said You will soon be out and they just smiled. But the driver must have been in great pain. His leg was badly hurt." The crash happened at 7:40 just as the rush-hour was building up at the Oxford Road Junction, Seven Sisters Road. Passengers waiting for their heard the sound of the crash through the fog as the empty stock which was to have made up the 9 a.m. Kings Cross-Newcastle express ran into the rear of stock for the 820 a.m. to Doncaster. There were heavy delays to suburban trains into King's Cross. Moorgate and Broad Street from Hatfield and Hertford. Two trains had to be cancelled the 7:56 a.m. from Hertford North to Moorgate and the 8:22 a.m. from Barnet to Broad Street. The Up slow line was closed while an inspection was carried out.

A DRIVER and fireman have trapped to-day when two passenger trains were in collision in the fog. It happened near Finsbury Park Station on the Eastern Region and both trains were empty. The two men were later released by firemen. But passengers in other suburban trains were delayed by the collision. The driver 37-years-old Mr William Jackson of Grantham Greem Boreham Wood Herta was taken to hospital with leg injuries. The fireman 18-years-old John Sygrove also went to the hospital where he was treated for shock. But he was later able to go home. The crash occurred on the Up goods line at the end of Oxford-Road. The trains involved the 8:20 a.m.King's Cross it pulled out of the station only two minutes late. An eye-witness Mr G.A. Banks of Hitchin, Herts who was travelling to town in the other train said: "We were level with the two trains when they collided 300 yards away from the station platform. Both were going very slowly or things could have been worse..

Hundreds of copies of an apology for disrupted train services yesterday morning were given to rush-hour travellers leaving King's Cross London last night. It said that a crash at Finsbury Park involving a diesel locomotive and two trains of empty coaches on they way to King's Cross was the main cause of the disruption. The driver of the diesel Mr Winston Jackson, 37 of Grantham Greem, Boreham Wood. Hertfordshire was taken to hospital with leg injuries.