Further information concerning the Torquay incident - Paul Burkhalter has sent us this link to the official report.

Reference the current exchanges about this, the accident report is here: http://www.railwaysarchive.co.uk/documents/MoT_Torquay1962.pdf
The allegation about a female on the hotel fire escape is not confirmed – the investigation says it was a man!
Cheers, Paul
This makes extremely interesting reading - very many thanks to Paul for drawing our attention to this.