ECHO OF RAIL-CAR SMASH
(Special to thß "Evening Post.")
MASTERTON, March 10.
An, echo of a recent rail-car smash m the South Island was heard at yesterday's meeting of the Masterton County Council when a request was received from the Railway Department that loose metal be cleared away from the vicinity of level crossings so that a similar accident should not occur again. ;
In cases where road graders were used. ±hs council was asked to impress upon drivers the danger 'of grading loose metal on to or near level crossings and to instruct them and workmen to keep loose metal graded away from the railway line. The actual cause of the derailment referred to, ■it was stated, was a stray .stone, which had been kicked on to the rail at a sealed crossing by a passing herd of cattle. - I
It was decided to carry cjut the suggestion? of the Department. ,
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 59, 11 March 1937, Page 25
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