Safety in Speed.
Another striking proof ha? recently been added bo the already long lint of incidents whicK make ib certain that there is safety in extreme speed on railways. The Great Western express, one of the faetesfa trains in the kingdom, came upon the trunk of a tree fifty feet lone which had slid down from the embankment. A timid enginedriver, seeing such a formidable obstacle ai a trunk 5 feet 6 inches in circumference before him, might) have shut off steam and put on the brakes, when a catastrophe would have been inevitable. Fortunately, they do not employ timid drivers on tho Great Western,,and the engine, at a speed of sixty miles an hour, cut clean through the trunk with no worse results than a slight jolting to the passengers and eorna damage to tho engine-guard a and steampioo.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXV, Issue 66, 17 March 1894, Page 12 (Supplement)
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