ATTEMPT TO WRECK A TRAIN.
ON HELENSVILLE LINE. THREE YOUTHS ARRESTED. Auckland, Last Night. A serious accident to the "Helens-ville-Auckland train was averted on Saturday evening by the promptness of the engine-driver in pulling up the train when the fore part of the engine went oft the rails, owing to an accumulation , of road metal, presumably piled up by boys. Later. As the result of a police inquiry into the railway Occident near Ivingsland, three lads, all aged eighteen years, will appear at the Court charged with attempting’ to wreck .the Helensville train. The derailment was at first be- ; lieved to be due to road metal on the line, but in addition a heavy iron brake block was picked up on the line, cracked as if it had been struck by a bujky object. Whether this was placed on the line, or was accidentally lying whex-e it was found is not very clear. Measurements show that the engine travelled about' ,95 yards from the obstraction and before being pulled up ran across two cattle stops. The train included five or six passenger coaches, all fairly well filled. The engine and carriages are practically undamaged.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2536, 30 January 1923, Page 3
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194ATTEMPT TO WRECK A TRAIN. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2536, 30 January 1923, Page 3
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