THE BRAYBROOK COLLISION.
BRAKES FEEBLE AND UNSATISFACTORY. REPORT OF DRIVER MILBURN, Received May 8, 10.25 a.m. MELBOURNE, May 8. Professor Kernot, of Melbourne University, one of the special board appointed"by the Government to enquire into the causes of the Braybrook train disaster, reports that the brakes of the Bendigo train were feeble and most unsatisfactory, 1 The report of Leonard Milburn, driver of the Bendigo train., has been published. He states that he applied the brakes but they failed; he then reversed the engine, but the train rushed past the home signal, and crashed into the Ballarat train.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9085, 9 May 1908, Page 5
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98THE BRAYBROOK COLLISION. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9085, 9 May 1908, Page 5
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