RAILWAY COLLISION.
STATIONHASTER'S' EBBOS. SOME INTERESTING EVIDENCE. SPARKS FROM THE BRAKES. B! TELEcnArn—press Association—copyeiqht. (Roc; May 18, 11.50 p.m.) Melbourne, May, 18. At the inquest on a victim of the Braybrook railway disaster, tho guard of the, Ballarat train deposed that when he saw the Bendigo train approaching he waved a lamp for the Ballarat train to go forward quickly, but it was tod late. Ho often found tho distance signal at danger when the train passed in and the home Signs! down. . ■ V . Kendall, statiohmaster at Braybrook, gave evidence that he intended to give the signal to come to the distance to. the Bendigo train, but, according to tho entry in his book, ho gave "line clear" to Sydenham.'The mistake he made was in. not keeping the Ballarat train at the home signal "Whcti he gave the lino clear, but ho w i as Undef the impression that lie had given the Signal to: th# BoiidigO Win to 6dmo to the distance. He had been Working for ten hours on the day of the accident, but that was nothing uriusli&L He had to look after botli the sigiiak flnd the platform.
Aiiother witness. Said he sa\v ,Bpttffes fly from the brakes 6f thfe Boiidigo 'train at the home signal, it ■ slowed rapidlyj and) if it had had thirty yards rricjfo of clear road, therS Would have been iio aicideiit; •
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 201, 19 May 1908, Page 7
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230RAILWAY COLLISION. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 201, 19 May 1908, Page 7
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