EXPRESS HITS TROLLEY.

Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17471, 3 June 1922, Page 10

EXPRESS HITS TROLLEY.

SUBFAOEMAITS NABEOW ESCAPE. (special to "the rasas.") TTMARU, June 2. Passengers on the second northbound express yesterday were startled when the brakes were suddenly applied and the train brought to a standstill when travelling along the level stretch of line between Washdyke and Seadown. The train was a long one and it was travelling at a high ' rate of speech as it generally does on this stretch of line, which is level and without any bends in it. As there was no apparent cause for the stoppage so far as the passengers could see, all eyes were promptly peering through the carriage windows to see what had happened. Darkness was setting in at the time and a light misty rain was falling so that the visibility was poor. By the side of the railway track a man was seen and not tar from him the remains of a railway, trolley. The man was presumably a railway surfaceman. He had been traveling along the line on the trolley apparently in ignorance of the fact that the express was coming on behind him until it got fairly close to him. Then, realising his dangerous predicament, he threw himself off the trolley and got clear of the line just in time to save himself. He had not time, however, to get the trolley off and it was smashed to matchwood, the bits of wood and iron being scattered in all directions. One of the iron wheels of the trolley was thrown fully 20 yards from the track as a result of the impact. So far as could be seen by the passengers the man escaped unhurt. He was lucky not only in escaping from being run down but also in not being struck by any of the flying splinters of | the trolley. The train stopped just long enough- to ascertain that the man was not hurt and for the guard to take his name and the exact locality of the accident.