SLEEPERS ON RAILS
TWO YOUTHS ARRESTED TRAIN’S NARROW ESCAPE Reed. 11 a.m. MELBOURNE, To-day. The police arrested Clifford Issell, aged 17, and Ronald Tr eh earn, aged 17, who were charged with having placed an obstruction on the railway line at Bacchus Marsh. It is alleged that the youths told the police they placed sleepers on the line. Train wreckers made an ’attempt to wreck the Adelaide express between Bacchus Marsh and Ingliston on Sunday afternoon. The driver, noticing an obstruction on the line, jammed on the emergeni-y brakes and brought the train to a standstill a couple of feet from two sleepers which were placed aaross the rails. Owing to the derailment, of another train, the express was 50 minutes behind schedule time. Had it not been for this, a heavily-loaded excursion train from Ballarat would have gone over the line first on a down-grade.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 557, 9 January 1929, Page 9
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