MAN ON RAILWAY BRIDGE
Auckland Express Stopped Dominion Special Service. Palmerston North, September 14. The vigilance of the engine-driver of the Wellington-Auckland express due at Palmerston North at 6 p.m.. was re sponsible for the saving of the Pte of no inmate of the Awapuni Old 1 eoples Home on Saturday evening. Hie engine of the train had just entered the Longburn bridge when the driver noticed something lying between the rails on the far end. Watching lest it should be a workman attending to the permanert way, the driver discovered as he drew closer that it was an elderly man crawling on hands and knees from sieeper .o sleeper. The train was promptly stopped, coming to a standstill about six yards from t ie man, who was lifted oii to the footplate of the engine, where the fireman held him until the train had passed over the br'dge, when he was taken uto tlie guard’s van, brought, to Palmerston Norte and returned to the home. At tne tin>“ he was suffering from loss of memory
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Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 300, 15 September 1936, Page 5
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176MAN ON RAILWAY BRIDGE Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 300, 15 September 1936, Page 5
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