THE KENSINGTON CROSSING ACCIDENT.
TO THfi EDITOR.
Sir, — It ia qui to clwur from the evidence adduced at the inquest yesterday that the engine whiuile oannofc at all timn be depended on to giro sufficient warning of an approaching tr*in. What ia wanted is something on thf.i spob to give an alarm. If the Government osnnot atford to keep a signalman en the ground, I think a very efficient and comi arrive y inexpensive node of alarm could he fir.; td. U|> on the apot, v.'z., fix a post in rue ground wish a beii of sufficient weight fixed U it, and to which a small wire rope could bo attached aad carried along the end of the *ltep*rs, say a quarter of a mile, or whatever distance might be requisite. A lever might be attached to the end of the rope and so fixed that seme j.art of the engine of. au approaching train would strike the lever and «efc the beU ringing.—l am, etc.,
D. Smbaton.
Duaedin, March 2.
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Evening Star, Issue 5610, 2 March 1881, Page 1
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171THE KENSINGTON CROSSING ACCIDENT. Evening Star, Issue 5610, 2 March 1881, Page 1
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