Stock Photo - Feb. 09, 1961 - 9-2-61 Runaway train rams houses. Eight people had miraculous escape ?¢‚Ǩ‚Äú Eight people had miraculous escapes from death when a 120-ton diesel train crashed through station buffers and a stone wall to plough across a road and through a row of terraced houses at 35-40 mph. near Oldham, Lancs, yesterday. Driver Harry Pearse sounded his horn for a quarter of a mile as the train hurtled out of control down a gradient into Royton Station. Then, 30 yards from the buffers, the flung himself on to the station platform. Five people, including three women, who had been asleep in the houses were taken to the hospital with minor injuries. Two of them had been carried still in bed on the roof of the train. Photo Shows: Debris surrounds the runaway train after it had crashed into a row of houses near Royton Station, Lancs. (Credit Image: © Keystone Press Agency/Keystone USA via ZUMAPRESS.com)