ANOTHER RAILWAY COLLISION.

Feilding Star, Volume I, Issue 236, 10 April 1907, Page 2

ANOTHER RAILWAY COLLISION.

[PEB PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Gore, April 9. The Dunedin express collided at Waipahi with the train from Invercargill, standing at Waipahi, at noon. No very serious damage was done but the mail Van was smashed, and the engine also damaged a little, but not sufficiently to disable it. No one was hurt. The express is said by passengers to have overrun the signal, and the brakes applied did not hold it sufficiently to stop it before striking the standing train. The passengers were not greatly inconvenienced, and the mailman was not hurt. Invercargill, April 9. In connection with the collision between the South-going express and the slow train from Invercargill, at Waipahi, the local Traffic Manager states that the general practice is to signal the incoming express if the line is clear as the two trains cross at the station. The slow train is timed, to arrive at Waipahi twelve minutes before the express and has usually concluded its business at the platform and gone on to the side line before the express is signalled. Should the train fail to keep schedule time the stationmaster has power to deal with the traffic as he thinks best. Mannix, who was in charge of the mail van, says the first intimation he had of the collision was a terrific bump which sent him flying from one end of the van to the other. He escaped injury in the van and when the train stopped was only a few feet away from the steep embankment at the foot of which is the Waipahi stream. The mails were removed to a carriage intact.