SAVED A TRAIN
WOMAN'S TIMELY WARNING... A- thrilling narrative of the way in which a mixed goods train, carrying a few passengers, was saved from disaster on a burning bridge at Nundah (near Single. New South Wales), recently was told by railway officials. Mrs Anderson, it was stated, went to the window of her house to close th£ shutters on account of a strong westerly gale which was raging when she thought she saw a flash of flame from the direction of the iSu'Mlah railway bridge. She looked t:.r',in. but could see nothing. Instinct seemed to tell her that something' was wrong, and she remained at the window. A few seconds later she saw another flash, which she described as like that coming from a gun, and which she thought was also from the bridge. She roused her husband, who was sleeping, having returned from his night duties at 7 o'clock. - "I boheve the bridge is on fire," she told turn He dressed hurried Iv. and left ior the bridge, about half a mile away. The bride was well alight, and ho rushed to inform the station mastor at Nundah station, who telegraphed to Singleton where he found train had left a few minutes before. Then he telegraphed to Padullah three miles further on, and the tram was pulled up there.
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Shannon News, 18 December 1925, Page 3
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221SAVED A TRAIN Shannon News, 18 December 1925, Page 3
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