RAILWAY ACCIDENT NARROWLY AVERTED.
CHRFSTG'HURCH. Maroh 25. A serious railway accident 'Tas narrowly averted at the Kaiapoi station, yesterday morning. By some neglect the points on the main line right opposite the passenger platform had been left open after tha carriages of tbe Eyreton branch line train had been shunted from the platform, and the carriages . were, as usual, left standing about a chain along the loop line below the points. The train frum the north, which, as usual on Saturdays, was a long and heavy one, was running into the station at a speed of eight or ten miles an hour, when the engine swerved on to the loop-line. The engine-driver promptly applied the air brake and brought his train up with the locomotive within a few yards of the standing train.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIII, Issue 8104, 26 March 1906, Page 5
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133RAILWAY ACCIDENT NARROWLY AVERTED. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIII, Issue 8104, 26 March 1906, Page 5
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