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OK, stay with your urban myth. Clearly nothing will shake your belief in a debunked conspiracy theory; it's a characteristic of conspiracy theorists. And no, surprisingly enough I do not personally know anyone involved, including Major Pringle (good entry for silly question of the year...

I'd still like to know your sauce. Your version is at odds with the accounts of O.S.Nock and L.T.C.Rolt, both acknowledged experts on the subject. The ideas that it was a common practice, that bets were involved, or bribery from passengers were investigated at the time, and all were de-bunked in...

Nothing in that to support Danny-Boys claim that "the driver later admitted that there was a bet amongst drivers as to how fast a train could go through the curved platform there". The driver and firemen were among the 28 dead.

Sauce? It'll need to be a very convincing one, given that both driver Robinson and his fireman were killed in the crash.