RAILWAY ACCIDENTS
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TRAIN JUMPS A PLATFORM.,
CRASHES THROUGH A ( WALL
(Received August 14, 8.35 a.m.)
LONDON, August 13
A passenger train at Glasgow, owing to the brakes failing to act, crashed into the dead end at Queen Street Station, and jumped the platform and went through the wall of the refreshment room.
' Five persons were injured. The Lord Provost of Glasgow (Mr A. M'lnnes Shaw), who was a passenger by the train, had a narrow escape.
TRAINS DERAILED. y
(Received August 14, 10.25 a.m.)
SYDNEY, August 14
A train left the rails at Riverstone, twenty-eight miles north-west of Sydney. The passengers were badly shaken, but none were seriously injured. The line was repaired, but later the engine of a second train, while going slow, jumped the track at the same place. It is supposed the line was warped.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 1034, 15 August 1911, Page 5
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147RAILWAY ACCIDENTS Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 1034, 15 August 1911, Page 5
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