TRAIN WRECKING.
Pet Press Association. Christchurch, last nighi,
The attempt to derail the second express from Dunedin on Friday near Chertsoy appears to have resulted io n narrow escape from a eorioas calamity. Just as the train had passed through the station, the passengers experienced a slight jolt It is understood the driver and guard reported a j conlaot about the .same time with some foreign objoot on the lino, but it remained for a platelayer to discover the following morning the real Dature of the obstacle. About three-quarters of a mile north of the station were found four sleepers, weighing 901bs each, whioh had been removed from the side of the line where they had besn lying with others. Apparently they had been plaoed aoross the railway. Fortunately, the cowcatcher of the express was running low enough to oatoh the sleepers, whioh must have beon oarried fifty yards, as the permanent way was strewn with splinters and the battered fteepers were found where they bad evidently been eventually thrown off. No damage was done to the track. The train was heavily freighted, and running at about thirty miles an hour at the time of the collision- The matter has boen placed in the bands of the Ashburton polioe.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1563, 20 September 1905, Page 3
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209TRAIN WRECKING. Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1563, 20 September 1905, Page 3
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