 Although "Ladybank", a 0-4-2 locomotive of Drummond's design, had been booked to work the train it had broken down and was replaced by no.224, a 4-4-0 to the design of Thomas Wheatley, thus freeing Drummond to act as an independent witness.He said that the entire train had fallen vertically down when the High Girders collapsed, from the impact marks the wheels had made on the lines.