Man's Precarious Hold On Moving Train
. INVERCARGILL, Nov. 29. Clinging by oue hand to a rail on tlie guard's van of the InvercargillChristchurch express, with a suitcase in the other hand and a precarious foothold on a ,stee! proiection, a man was eairied from Invercargill to One Tree Foint, just out of the citv, before the .train was stojiped. The man arrived on the platform oi the Invercargill ^ation just as thexpress was stear^gafeout. He eliaseti it and just managc|||fe jump on the bhck Of the guard^s tmjfe Fortunately hwas seen by a railway^lfficial, who had the train stopped as soon as possible.
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Chronicle (Levin), 2 December 1948, Page 9
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