WERE THE SIGNALS WRONG ?
EXPERT OPINION ON EXETER TRAIN SMASH. By Telegraph-Press ABsocia-tion-Oopyiieht Sydney, March 17. Interest .has been aroused by a statement by the driver of the Temora mail train which crashed into a stationary train at Exeter, causing loss of life, that the distant end signal was off when ho passed- it. By means of the interlocking system it is impossible to lower the distant signal while the home signal is at danger. The homo signal was on.
An expert suggests that ccld weather setting in after the hot day might have contracted the wire sufficiently to' lower tho signal. '
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2010, 18 March 1914, Page 7
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102WERE THE SIGNALS WRONG ? Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2010, 18 March 1914, Page 7
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