RAILWAYMEN DISRATED.
AFTER MURULLA ACCIDENT. (Received l'J noon. I SYDNEY, this day. Replying to a question in the Legi>lative Assembly, the Minister of Kailways said that the guard concerned in the Murulla railway disaster had been dismissed, and the driver had been reduced to a shed fireman.
About 30 people were killed on the night of September 14 near Murulla, when four trucks became detaehed from n pomle train and bolted downhill, to crash into the north-west mail train. The accident was due to a broken coupling, which hail been repared by a wire rope, which also broke. In reply to a question in the House on November 11. the Minister admitted that nine cnnpliniis !iad broken on passeneer trains in New South Wales. and 3UI on other trains, during the year ended on August 31 (prior to this disaster!. He also said that 152 drawbars had snapped on passenger trains durini: the year, and 1741 on other trains. There had been three runaway trains during the year.
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Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 47, 25 February 1927, Page 7
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