RIMUTAKA RAILWAY ACCIDENT.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 854, 24 August 1881, Page 2

RIMUTAKA RAILWAY ACCIDENT.

[To the Edftqfof Daily.] Sra,-rl think the publjo willVglad that our Parliamentary' Representatives have caused an enquiry to be made as to the cause of the late aooldent on the Wellington and Masterton railway. With regard to the portion of the train which was blown off the line, I think that is plain enough,' the bodies of the carriages being about 24 feet long (without including % ffitnjnffl BltfMl bj Z feet (} inches high and nearly \ feet If we'rec|fon the force of the wind at IS lbs to the square foot, it gives us'27oo lbs pressure on the side of each carriage, without reckoning the roof, and this sudden force acting with lererage on the carriages, which are about 10 feet high, and running on a base of 9 feat (J inches wide, was quite sufficient to blow them off the; line, as it did, But with' regard to the train running off the line at different times and places, that is a much more / serious matter, asitßhows theremustbe a defect in the rolling stock or in the'line', which, if not discovered and remedy, will probably end in a serious accjdent,' Perhaps the Ranges of thd wheels are hot deep enoiighi-'Eeople grumble' occasionally' •'■ of.what 1 they, call'the slow 'rate of speed • 'at'which', the trains-run 1 , but i£ they'con- : - aicjer thtfiine'l iß : diily #'feefc 6inches wide! and the"carriages overhang it }B, itiohej p\.. either aide, and stand about }(}/eet' nigfy' Jltbinkitney:will.;cohie':to'ihe. conclusion that it is fast enoqgh.. ~, „,...... ~..,.. "•' "Yours/Ad.;- i/I ''' :! -" li -' : - ! Wiuiam Francis.