A PLUCKY ENGINE-DRIVER.
On the. Stockton and Darlington Railway the driver of a goods train saw a runnaway engine and tender pass him on the adjoining line, going straight for Darlington, some miles westward.
He rushed his trucks into a siding, uncoupled, crossed by means of the points, on to the line on which the runnaway wa.s travelling, ami set out in chase.
If wa.s a long, grim race, but the driven engine slowly overhauled the fugitive. The driver ellimbed on to the front of his own engine, and dropped a chain over the hook of the tender in front, stole back to his own footplate, and screwed down the brake, so retarding the speed of the engine in front that he was able to clamber back, reach the platform of the runnaway ami apply its brakes, and bring both to it. standstill, just in sight of Darlington Station.
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Lake County Press, Issue 2134, 6 September 1906, Page 7
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149A PLUCKY ENGINE-DRIVER. Lake County Press, Issue 2134, 6 September 1906, Page 7
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