Mr Anderson: Well i was brought around by a, well a kind of grating noise as if something was stopping us, or we were making a sudden stop of some sort. I was rather curious to find out what it was, and I could see at the front of our carriage and what appeared to be a cloud of steam or white cloud of some sort. That seemed strange. We were quite a long way back in the train. I couldn't work that one out at all But I had a nasty feeling then that there seemed to be nothing else in front of us. Our carriage just seemed to be almost marooned, shall we say. Nothing on either side except water. I could hear the rushing; there was a tremendous rushing of water, and there was quite a lashing of foam, and you could hear it. It was rather frightening, and I had a nasty feeling then that we were on some sort of bridge or other, just left to it.
Interviewer: And when you came to, how did you get out? Do you remember getting out of the carriage?
Mr Anderson: Well I don't … we didn't really get out at all. Somebody sort of said to us, after what appeared to me to be quite a few seconds pause, we better get out of this, but he was sort of taking it quietly. Very shortly after that I reached for my raincoat and put it on and my wife's coat, I don't know whether we could have got that on or not, but I had it, and the next thing we felt a sort of lurching, a sway. That one put most of us out of balance. Then there was a downward kind of a plunge and it seemed as if we floated for quite a bit.
Interviewer: What carriage were you in?
Mr Anderson: The 5th actually.
Interviewer: That was the one that went over last or first?
Mr Anderson: It was the first carriage. It seemed to be the only carriage I could see left on the bridge; I wondered what happened to the rest them. As I said before, I had the uncanny feeling that something had disappeared in front of us......
