GOODS TRAIN IN DANGER.
BRAKES TAMPERED WITH. SAVED BY DESPERATE EXPEDIENT. (By Telezraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, thie day. Before Christmas someone tampered with the Westinghouse brake ,on a goods train from Johnsonville to Wellington, a steep incline descending 460 feet in five miles. As soon as he started, the driver found something was wrong and he could not stop the train. The driver and fireman then took the risk of jumping off and trying to drop the hand brakes as the trucks passed. In this rather desperate and courageous attempt they succeeded, or the train must have come to a smash. The matter ■was kept secret in the hope of detecting the offender.
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Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 10, 13 January 1926, Page 6
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