NEW SAFETY DEVICE
GREYMOUTH, Feb. 13. A device has been invented by Mr L. C. Keen, of Waiuta—an automati • danger-signalling device for railway crossings. The device docs not depend on electricity, and therefore any danger of fusing wires or failure of current cannot affect its action. Tlie engine attached to the train, when within a quarter-mile of the device, operates it, and instantly two signals are set working at right angles, and also diagonally to the crossing, and the device shows lights, rings bells, and waves a danger flag. When the engine passes over the crossing it comes iii contact with another portion of the device, bringing it to a stop. One apparatus, it is said, will work twenty lines at the same time, regardless of the direction in which the trains are travelling.
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Hokitika Guardian, 15 February 1929, Page 3
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