INSPECTION OF SIGNAL APPARATUS.
A REMARKABLE DISCOVERY.
vrHESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) AUCKLAND, May 28. Imuieuii'tely after thu accident at AYhaugamarino. v number of railway officials and passengers proceeded to the building in which tho signal levers were housed, and found tho lever in position to display tho red light for danger. At the homo signal, 200yd.s. distant, the tog was .sufficiently dense to malvtt it iir.possihlp for tho porter who operated tho lever to see wii.it lic;ht was showing from tho station platformAfter having noted that the plover stood correctly *et for "danger." -»nd was s>till locked with the patent lock, tho party proceeded to tho signal, and found tho green light displayed instead of tho red. , . Tho nk>lit was very cold, ana it is presumed that the wires contracted, nnd caused the wrong signal to b.> hoisted, as was the ca&o in the Tt:n.oYa (New .South Wales) railway eraash two months ago.
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Press, Volume L, Issue 14980, 29 May 1914, Page 6
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152INSPECTION OF SIGNAL APPARATUS. Press, Volume L, Issue 14980, 29 May 1914, Page 6
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