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Gisborne Times, Volume LIII, Issue 5537, 20 July 1920, Page 6

A Parramatta resident had. rather nr overturn experience on his journey L Bri«G..K; 'to Sylnov (SM* Cumberland Aigus). In instance lie expected to get a modi •urn of sleep and quiet in a, sloepms car but he got such a jolting and tossing about that he was impelled remark to the conductor that there was but little satisfaction m paying tor a sleeper and deriving no cointort therefrom. To tin's the conduc - or rcnlied: “Yen are a lucky_ man. The bogey of the engine left the rails and traveled some 50 or W yards over the ballast, and had!. t run another 10 yards we would have nil teen smashed lip.’’ Iha.t, m ij>“ self, was enough to upset ones nerves, but this was added to by just another trifling incident. The ordinary mail train was running close behind, and there was the danger of the leading train being over-run. The guard put detonators on the line, and the ordinary, as it raced along, was pulled up with hi 10 yards of the express. And nothing extra was charged for all this. Up, C. w? SwfaHma