RAILWAYMEN ABSOLVED
WEST COAST LINE INCIDENT.
(Per Press Association.)
WELLINGTON, November 7.
Following statements by passengers on the West Coast-Christchurch express six weeks ago, that the train travelled at an excessive speed and that a carriage struck the side of one tunnel; a departmental inquiry was held at the railway headquarters and the incident is now closed.
The departmental statement on the matter is that the incident on which the complaints were founded occurred on the Christchurch side of Otira, where there is a local speed restriction of twenty miles an hour. The train approached a slight curve at slightly over the prescribed speed, but by no means a dangerous speed, and it is felt that some inexperienced travellers were led to believe that the shock when the curve was reached was caused by a carriage striking the side of a tunnel. This allegation is definitely disproved. Considerable evidence was given at the inquiry by a number of independent individuals, and the result was to absolve the officers on the train from the charges against them.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 9 November 1929, Page 8
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