TRAIN JUMPS OVER A PLATFORM

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 208, 22 May 1918, Page 7

TRAIN JUMPS OVER A PLATFORM

While an empty train, was being Backed into No. 7 platform at Central Hailway Station, Sydney, one night last week the rear wheels of the last car bumped tho dead oud. Tho result was that the caniago beramo disconnected from the bolts holding it, and smashed through a wooden barrier,, which was cent crashing into a telcphono bureau at tho l»ck of tho bookstnil opposito tho main entrance. The , end of the carriage was damaged. No person was injured. There was little, if any, delay in tho traflic. Tho accident occurred at 8.20 p.m. Iho train, which consisted of an engiuo and ten empty carriages, had boon got together in" tho yards to take up the run from Sydney to Homebush, at 8.50. It moved towards the platform at a rcaeonablo rato of speed, and travelled along tho lino to lake its position. Whether or not there, was a mistake in regard to signals hns not transpired, but tho train caino along, and thcro was a crash which startled hundreds of people who were on the platform. Thoso in tlio immediate vicinity of tho train state that as soon as tho back wheels struck the stonework, tho car, an American one about 40 feet long, shot on to lho platform, and knocked the barrier into the telephone bureau, and smashed it. n is fortunate that no one wns in the telephone box when it wns smashed, other bureau a few tat away missd where Ihe trams arrive and depart eomo thinkW that there had been a bomb explosion.