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THE BRAYBROOK TRAIN DISASTER.

BRAKES PKI'LARED UNS.U'ISFACTOin. DRIVER Mil.lit UN'S REl'UlvT. I'rofevior Kernot reports that the brakes on the Bcmligo train were feeble and most unsatisfactory. Driver Milburn's report hj, lnrn published. He states that lie applied the brakes, but they failed to grip. Then he reversed the engine, but the ,-jiin rushed pa£t the home signal and crashed into the Ballarat train. A Dunedin resident who has just returned from a visit to Melbourne, states that very sub-tantial proportion of pub li. opinion in thai city is directed I a>r iiiist the V e-toriao railway aiitliori- | ties {or their policy of trying lo make the railway.- yield a substantial profit. For the first time iu many years tln'y have succeeded during the last financial year, but it is stated that this end has been achieved largely by tile employment of inexperienced youths and al-o hv curtailing expenditure in other directions to such an extent that many people, entirely dissociated from railway intr sets, have openly predicted serious <->■ isequences.

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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 118, 9 May 1908, Page 5

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THE BRAYBROOK TRAIN DISASTER. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 118, 9 May 1908, Page 5

THE BRAYBROOK TRAIN DISASTER. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 118, 9 May 1908, Page 5

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