NARROW ESCAPE FROM A RAILWAY COLLISION.
Press Association. Electric Telegraph Copyright. ASHBURTON, July 11. A collision was narrowly averted at the station on account of a snowstorm The Timaru train, due at 10.30, was late half-an-hour, and arrived as the train from Ohristchurch, due at 11, came into the station, both trains Dulling up within a couple of yards of •ach other. But for the forethought of the stationmaster, who sent porters out to warn the drivers of each train, a serious collision might have happened. Tha signals were obsoured by 9now. About a foot of snow fell in six hours, and is still falling.
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Marlborough Express, Volume XXXVII, Issue 162, 13 July 1903, Page 4
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105NARROW ESCAPE FROM A RAILWAY COLLISION. Marlborough Express, Volume XXXVII, Issue 162, 13 July 1903, Page 4
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