SAVED A TRAIN.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 4 November 1925, Page 9

SAVED A TRAIN.

WOMAN’S TIMELY WARNING

BRIDGE ON FIRE,

NEWCASTLE, Oct. 17

A thrilling narrative of the way in which a mixed goods train, carrying a few passengers, was saved, from disaster on a burning bridge at Nundah, near Singleton, on Monday, was told at Newcastle to-dav by railway officials. Mrs Anderson, it was stated, went to the window of her house to close the shutters on account of a strong westerly g-a’e which was raging, when she thought she saw a flash of flame from the direction of Nundah railway bridge. She looked again, hut could see nothing. Instinct seemed to tell her that something was wrong, and she remained at the window. A few seconds later she saw another flash, which she described as fake that coming from a gun, and which she thought was also from the bridge She roused her husband, who. was sleeping, having returned from . his night duties at 7 o’clock. “I believe the bridge i s on fire,” she told him. He dressed hurriedly and left for the bridge, about half a mile away. The bridge was well'alight, and he rushed to inform the station master at Nundah station, who telegraphed to Singleton, where he found that the train had left a few minutes before. Then he telegraphed to Padullnh, three miles further on, and the train was pulled up there.