GRETNA RAILWAY SMASH

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 26 May 1915, Page 8

GRETNA RAILWAY SMASH

EVIDENGE Af THE ___^TJIRY,

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(Received May !_& 1#.30 p.m.) ■London. May 25. At th© Gretrja Grfeen railway smash enquiry. Meecjam,, Signalman at Quiritin's Hill, te jtified that he shunted the local train to the ftp main line and tdid Tioslej, a __igj_aJ_m_.n, when the latter relieved hi._n, t3_at the train had been "shunted.

Tinsley, in giving evidence, admitted that he forge*t all about the local train when ac gave the signal to the troop train.