A BROKEN AXLE.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20027, 8 September 1930, Page 8

A BROKEN AXLE.

LIMITED EXPRESS DELAYED. (PRESS. .ASSOCIATION TZLEGBAJt) WELLINGTON, September 6. The Limited express, which leaves Auckland at ? p.m. and is due in Wellington at 9 30 a.m. had a narrow escape this morning from what might have been a serious disaster. An axle on one of the cars broke as the train was passing Kelvin Grove, between Bunnythorpe and Palmerston North, but the prompt action of Mr C. GLoveridge, of Hamilton, prevented derailment and possible disaster. He, noticing that the car he was in—the third from the front—was bumping heavily, applied the emergency brake, and thereby brought the train to a standstill. Sortie time age the Ralway Department installed a safety appliance in all fcb© oars running on. Mam Trunk

trains, which enables any passenger, by breaking a pane of glass and pulling a tap, to apply the brakes and bring the tram, to a standstill. Mr boveridge, as soon as he realised from the bumping of the car that something 81,1188 broke the glass; and'applied e^ ergei |fy 4 brakes The tram L y pulled up and an inspection t revealed the fact that he left trailing wheel of the front ° a third carriage had come off. The boo-ev eSffit K , f eD ru ? n,n e the sleep for about a mile apparently, iudg Pefipm ms P ect '°P of the . track, the pemanent way. being.-damaged and tit ofl V The train at the cL j 0 . was running at down S„ ahe ? d of schedule on a it wasffm' t n u. . ls considered that caned dIS kab . ly to have es " There L a i .i Worse disaster. • aboard i 1 !? passengers carS; ° nly th ose in the third wron? ?h« aW K re that an sthing : -w.-u> alarmed them. bumpm S Roughly M a reßulfc accidenfc - There was -a two-hours'

wait before pasensgers to Palmerston jacked on to moral to a siding cleared b middty m tt«j^^Hß