TRAM DERAILED

Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 105, 28 January 1938, Page 12

TRAM DERAILED

Tennis Ball Jammed In Points MISHAP AT MIRAMAR A city-bound Seatouu tramcar was derailed at the loop opposite Scots College waiting-shed at about 4.30 o’clockyesterday afternoon, and it is believed that a tennis ball was responsible for the mishap. The car wa s off the rails for about an hour and a half, but was not damaged extensively. None of s handful of passengers on board was injured. After the derailment an inspection of the points at the loop revealed that the mechanism was prevented from operating by half a tennis ball which had become jammed between the rails in such a manner a<s to prevent a proper "switch” being made. It is believed that an outwardbound car must have run over tlie ball and left half of it in the points. Though the obstruction itself was slight, it was sufficient to throw the front bogy of the incoming train off the rails. The service was disrupted only slightly. “We finished up two feet from a lamp-post. It would have been ‘goodnight nurse’ if we had bit it,” said Mr. Donald Burnett, of the George Gee musical comedy company, who was a passenger on the tram. “The car swayed violently, and I thought it would tip over. We were all thrown to tlie floor, and one woman hurt her ankle badly.”