Chain on line
; PA Wanganui I : A northbound goods train ■ | struck a length of heavy( chain laid across the track! at the Ohakune railway yard: on Saturday evening when, only emergency braking, I and luck, prevented a serious! accident, according to the' crew. Bound for Taumarunui. the I : train was just entering Oha-1 • kune at 9 p.m. when the < (driver, Mr C. Manning, | caught sight of the chain in ithe headlight of his locomo-' Stive. It was lying across the' ' rails. Mr Manning applied the brakes, but the train struck; jthe chain, which was carried I under the wheels for about'
i 1100 m before dropping beijtween the rails. •' Mr Manning and ■ his fire- : i man, Mr K. Leslie, both of I ’ Taumarunui, were shaken by lithe incident. “God knows ,(where we could have ended ; up,” Mr Manning said. : i Constable B. Whittaker, of ' Ohakune, said the , chain : i could have caused the de- ■ i railment of the train and the i i possible demolition of Oha,’kune Station. i “It is only pure luck there ■ I was not a serious accident,” •'he said. Laying the chain across : the busy main line was a : | stupid act, done by totally I' irresponsible persons with no concern for others, he said.
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Press, 11 April 1979, Page 31
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