RAILWAY DISASTER AVERTED.
Per Press Association. Ohristchurch, Last Night. The express train from Culverden last evening, consisting of four cars, a mail van, and two luggage vans, drawn by locomotive No. 284, had a narrow escape from a serious accident. Running down the incline south of Balcairn station at a considerable but not more than ordinary speed, on the sharp curve near Sefton known as Death's corner, the two front wheels of the bogey on the locomotive left the metals at the road crossing in the centre j of the curve.
• The engine-driver promptly applied the Westinghouse brake, with sand on the rails, and pulled up the train before it had travelled more than double its own length. Fortunately the other wheels of the bogey kept on the metals, otherwise the train would almost immediately have gone off the line into a deep depression beside it '. ;,; %) ;|^Ej!
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 12 October 1907, Page 2
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147RAILWAY DISASTER AVERTED. Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 12 October 1907, Page 2
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