RAILWAY DISASTER.
REPORTED SUSPENSIONS. • .VICTORIAN LINES STARVED TO SHOW PROFIT. By Telegraph—Press AssociatidnrCopyriEht. - . ' Melbourne, February 11. : 'Pending . inquiry, into the ' dashing of the goods train engines against the "dead end" at Beaufort (causing thrc? deaths, and being, caused, it is by defective ,'brakes), iit is reported that the RailWay Department has suspended a locomotive foreman and a fitter at one .of the stations on tho Stawell lino. ; . - •,- i The Trades Hull, has 1 carried.. a resolution, viewing with 1 alarm ' the. increasing number of railway accidents,. and ; con?; damning the policy of the Railwaly; Commissioners, on the ground that- their desire to show a profit is leading to the undermahhing of tho service. ■ .. . '
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 740, 12 February 1910, Page 5
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