OFF, AND ON AGAIN
ATTEMPT TO DERAIL EXPRESS,
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(AUSTRALIAN-NEW ZEALAND CABLB ASSOCIATION.) LONDON, 27th July. The third attempt within a year to wreck a train near Durham resulted in the North-Eastern night express, bound for Scotland, being temporarily derailed. It was travelling at 60 miles an hour, and when near Durham crashed into two metal chairs, each weighing thirty pounds. Fortunately, the second chair put the train bade on the lines. XI ie driver was able to stop the engine, though he was seriously hurt by the jar of the collision.
"Chairs" are metal blocks which on the English railway lines are used to hold the rails in position on the sleepers, instead of tha spike 3 used in New Zealand.
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 25, 29 July 1924, Page 5
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124OFF, AND ON AGAIN Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 25, 29 July 1924, Page 5
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