BOY ON LIVE RAIL
ELECTRIC TRAIN STOPPED. An electric train was stopped near Walliugton, Surrey, recently, because a smisll boy was standing on the track. The driver and guard found another boy lying against the live rail. His hair was smoking, and the motorman went to the control and switched off the eurrent. The boy was taken to Carshalton H'ospital suffsring froih burns. The boys, aged six and three, were the sons of Mr. and Mrs. Dick, of Mere Bank, (Waddon, near Croydon. Mrs. Dick said later that the boys had wandered away while she was packing for a holiday. ,?,he thought that they were impressed by a conversation at home in the morning about their sleeping in tbe train all ni'gbt, and they went to see the trains.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 690, 16 November 1933, Page 3
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129BOY ON LIVE RAIL Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 690, 16 November 1933, Page 3
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