SERIOUS ACCIDENT NARROWLY AVERTED.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXII, Issue 8947, 12 October 1907, Page 2

SERIOUS ACCIDENT NARROWLY AVERTED.

Trouble at Death’s Corner. Press Association. Chbistchuech, October 11. The express train from Culverden last evening, consisting of four cars, a mail van, and two luggage vans, drawn by locomotive 284, had anarrow escape from a serious accident, while running down tbe incline south of Balcaim station at a considerable, but not more than an ordinary speed. On the sharp curve near Sefton, known as Death’s Comer, tbe two front wheels of the bogey on the locomotive left the metals at the road crossing in the centre of the curve. The engine-driver promptly applied the Westinghouse brake, with sand on the rails, and pulled up the train before it had travelled more than double its own length. Fortunately the 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.