RAILWAY CROSSING.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume X, Issue 321, 2 December 1875, Page 2

RAILWAY CROSSING.

To the Editor o™£rr 'Evening Mail./ Sir,— The flpredfan of Railway Works in replying to mtfMfter of Friday last fays thit i appeared toJ&Te written very maliciouslL I assure hintfhae nothing was farther fr<L' myintentirifi I related the 'simple faclaLr the occucsfnce, and nothing more. Bat lin greatlyJarpri?e.l ac a person occupying tie posits whiah the writer in lastfciglit'a Mdil assess i himself to hold stating what he mult & opposite of the truth. Haviife J9*S- f?° 8 J de ? aWe -- Pains to ascertain tlfc facts ' I am now in a position to et<»te thai, it it were necessary, evidence on oath coula be taken to corporate my statements * Friday last. -Mr Olive says that the twol engines were upwards of four untes apart. a\ distance eqaaljo twelve minutes travelling at highest rafe of fpeed. Now I have 'the aWbontyofafi eye witness for stating that wKta the first locomotive had entered, the cattft* m Mr Stafford's property the sscoad. was pacing Mr Martin's faon»e atSfoke; and* here th\ warding whistle was uiven, but, owing to the strong northerly wind that was blowing a^ the time, it coaid no 6be heard/ fropi the casing at the Quarantine Koad. / said that m> alighting fratp thefrap c^se/a delay of a! minute or two. K might hive been threo^ ecrtaiulr not more, whicK isr Pf ? v u^l se^ ond **B'' ne **»B about one" mile behind the first. With iefcrence -to the distance at which the trap was froni the lihe T when the latter engine passed the ccoasing.l repeat ihit we wefe wi:h!n seven lor eight picea of it, and it is well : known that the locomoUrcs tra?elat the ««quic&eat" speed froni about flte chains above the Quarantine Road to Mr Staflbrd'a cutting,. Hopine the Forimanof Eail^ay Wdrks^ai £ S I accurate in his statements ro future, and thaS the driver will not spare tfie whistle!" : . ' lam, &c, ""''. ■ . ' : " r -"'- i a . « „ \ Stoke, December 1, ,is^s.