The freight train was formed Coming_to_be ( from the London end ) of a hopper wagon , a pannier tank steam locomotive , a brake van , an empty bogie flatcar , and a bogie flatcar loaded with Land Rover vehicles .

The shooting Use_firearm of Walter Scott occurred Coming_to_be on , 2015 , in North Charleston , South Carolina , following a daytime traffic stop for a non-functioning brake light .

As the train started Process_start leaving Departing the platform , someone pulled Motion the emergency brake Motion and the train stopped Process_end near the signal point .

Only the locomotive was fitted with a Westinghouse brake Self_motion and there was only one brake van on the train .

Only the locomotive was fitted with a Westinghouse brake Self_motion and there was only one brake van on the train .

The four rear carriages of the cattle train were 'shivered to pieces ' killing Killing all nine Irish drovers who were asleep in the brake van and the fireman of the mail train , James Sherry .

The driver applied Using the 'simple ' vacuum brake Self_motion and threw Motion the locomotive into reverse but could not stop Process_end within the short distance of less than 250 yards .

The jury returned Giving a verdict of 'not guilty ' and the Lord Chief Justice said Communication in his summing up that `` ... he could not but think Coming_to_believe that the railway company was seriously to blame Judgment_communication for having had in use Using a brake which not only was not the best in existence Presence , but which was known Know to be insufficient and liable to break down Destroying '' .

Regardless of Sir Edward 's thinking Perception_active the Hexthorpe accident , closely followed Motion by the Armagh rail disaster Catastrophe in Northern Ireland sounded Change_sentiment the death Death knell of the 'simple ' vacuum brake .