Sydney Railway Accident.
Sydney, February 27. The signalmens’ records showed that the wrecked train left Sydney on time, and passed Sydenham Junction between a minute and a minute and a half ahead of time. ' The Traffic Inspector admitted that if the signalmen’s .records were true the train must have passed Sydenham at the rate of sixty miles an hour. Some of the passengers in the train said that the) had travelled in England in trains going sixty miles an hour, and this one was going faster than any they had ever seen." The railway officials admitted ithat certain repairs had been, made, but* not till after the Coroner and jury had seen the sjaot where thß accideat nccurred.,
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Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 115, 2 March 1901, Page 3
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118Sydney Railway Accident. Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 115, 2 March 1901, Page 3
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