NARROW ESCAPE OF A TRAIN.
By Telegraph—Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, October 11. The express--train from Culverden, last evening, consisting of four cars, a mail van and two luggage vans, drawn by locomotive No. 284, x had a narrow escape from a serious accident. Running down the incline south of Balcairn Station at a considerable, but no more than ordinary speed, on the sharp curva near Ssfton, known as Death's Corner, the two front wheels of the bogey on the locomotive left the metals at the rdlad crossing in the centre of the curve. The engine driver promptly applied the Westinghouse brake with sand on the raiis, and pulled up the train before it had travelled more than double its own length. Fortunately the other wheels of the boeey kept on the metals, otherwise the train would almost inevitably have gone off the line into a deep depression beside it.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8554, 12 October 1907, Page 5
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148NARROW ESCAPE OF A TRAIN. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8554, 12 October 1907, Page 5
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