THE SYDENHAM RAILWAY DISASTER.
e INQUEST. FSK PEKSS >BSOCIITI9R. (Received 28, 0.6 ».m.) Btdstey, February 27. At the ioques v , the signalmen's records showed the wracked train pass >d Sydenham Junction about a minute ahead of time. The Traffic Manßger admitted that if the s'goalmen's record* were true the train passed .Sydenham at the rate of sixty •miles an hour. Passenger in the *r*in faid they had travelled in England in trains going sixty mil.s an fcour, and this one was going faster than any * ne / * rer Baw - Acother witness awore he noticed the fieb plate ■ <f opened the line slightly out of Where the train ran off F £ % tflate was held by on* instead) «• four **>**■ Evidence w»a given fchat everythihj? that o»uld have helped' to locate the had been lemowl and repairs »<*, admitted certain but not till after the coroner and jflry bad seen the *pet of the accident.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXIII, Issue 44, 28 February 1901, Page 3
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150THE SYDENHAM RAILWAY DISASTER. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXIII, Issue 44, 28 February 1901, Page 3
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