TERRIFIC CRASH
EMPTY ELECTRIC TRAINS
BRAKES FAIL ON WET RAILS (Received February 11, noon.) .: /MELBOURNE, This Day. • Damage '.estimated at £30,000 Was caused when an electric passenger' train got out of control and crashed at sixty miles an hour into a stationary train- near'Cfoydon Station.! The crew of the runaway train and the motorman of the stationary train were injured. No passengers were aboard either train. The niotorman of the speeding' train escaped -by jumping from his compartment a few "yards' before the .terrific crash occurred. Altogether five carriages were wrecked and three others damaged. Two cars caught fire- and were 'destroyed. The cause of the smash is attributed to the failure of the wheels to grip the wet rails when the brakes were.applied.- '
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Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 35, 11 February 1935, Page 9
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124TERRIFIC CRASH Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 35, 11 February 1935, Page 9
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