AUSTRALIAN RAILWAYS.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLII, Issue 103, 2 May 1908, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN RAILWAYS.

SAD STATE OF AFFAIRS,

FAULTY SIGNALS. AND DEFECTIVE BRAKES.

[PBESS ASSOCIATION.} (Received May 2, 0.51 a.m.) SYDNEY, May 1

The evidence of the signalman m 'connection with the Murrurundi accident showed that the semaphore frequently failed to return to its position when the lever was released.. He liad demonstrated this to the superintendent, arid had also called the stationmaster's attention to the faulty working of the signals. [This accident was due to the Brisbane mail train and the Glen Innes mail meeting on the one set of rails. The latter, which was late, was in, the act of pulling on to a loop line to .allow the Brisbane train to pass when the collision occurred. Many people were,injured, but there was no losjs of "life. It was;supposed that1 a mistake in the signals was responsible for' the 'Collision."]