RAILWAY ACCIDENT NARROWLY AVERTED.
PROMPT USE OF BRAKES SAVES A TRAIN.
Press Association.
CHRISTCHURCH, Oct. 11. The express- train from Culverden last evening, consisting of four cars., a mail van, and two luggage van: drawn by locomotive No. 284, had a narrow escape from a serious accident. Running down the incline south of Balcairn station at considerable but not more than ordinary speed on the sharp curve near Sefton known as Death Corner, the two front wheels of the bogey on the locomotive left the metals at the road crossing in the centre of. the curve. Tho engine driver promptly applied' the AA T estinglioluse brake with sand on : the rails, and pulled up the train before it had travelled more thar double its own length. Fortunately tho other wheels of the bogey kept on the metals, otherwise the train would almost inevitably have gone off the line into a deep depression beside it/
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2209, 12 October 1907, Page 2
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