TRAIN IN SMITHEREENS
PILED THIRTY FEET HIGH CREW’S LEAP FOR LIFE (United P.A.—By Telegraph—Copyrightj Reed. 9.15 a.m. SYDNEY, To-day. A coal train bolted near Muswell Brook, owing to a failure of the brakes. The driver and fireman jumped off and sustained minor injuries. Thirty-six loaded trucks travelling at 50 miles an hour, were piled in smithereens, 30ft high at the side of the permanent way. The crew -would undoubtedly have been killed if they had remained on the footplates.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 351, 11 May 1928, Page 9
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79TRAIN IN SMITHEREENS Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 351, 11 May 1928, Page 9
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