CONFLICT OF OPINION
(Press Assn
SIGNALS. SLOW TO ACT
. — By Telegraph — Copyrlght).
Paris, Dec. 26. The driver of the Strasburg train, Etated: "l suddenly saw the rear red light of the Nancy express when 20 yards distant. I applied the brakes, but hit jt with a terrific crasfh. "We had just passed two open signals and did not hear tthe waming of detonator or alarm whistle, which Ehould have ia,utonmtically operated jf the danger signals were ignored." The pas.sengers in the last Strasiburg coach confirm the statement that the detonators exploded only when their carriages passed. ■On the contrary, the guard of the Nancy train on descending the track I just before the crash, contends that I }ie saw the signals at "danger," while I the gatekeeper says he heard a warn- [ ing whistle. I In view of the conflict a test enI gine traversed the line and establishjed the fac't that the signals were I eIqw to act owing to frost.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 725, 28 December 1933, Page 5
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162CONFLICT OF OPINION Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 725, 28 December 1933, Page 5
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