‘HUMAN ERROR’
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MELBOURNE, Feb. 7.
A human error probably caused the head-on collision between the Sydney-Mel-bourne Southern Aurora express and a goods train at Violet Town, the deputy chairman of the Victorian Railways Commissioners (Mr E. P. Rogan) said tonight. The signalling equipment had been tested this morning immediately after the crash and was found to be in order, he said. “But the points at the Melbourne end of the siding had been run through and damaged by the locomotive of the Southern Aurora,” Mr Rogan said.
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 31908, 8 February 1969, Page 13
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