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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1863, 13 July 1920, Page 5

A Parramatta resident had rather an exciting' experience on his journey from Brisbane to Sydney recently (says the Cumberland Argus). In the first instance he expected to get_ a modicum ot sleep and quiet in a sleeping car, but he got such a jolting and tossing about that he was impelled to remark to the conductor that there was little satisfaction in paying for a sleeper and deriving no comfort therefrom. To this the conductor replied: “You are a lucky man. Ihe bogey of the engine left the rails and travelled some 50 or 60 yards over the ballast, and had it run another 10 yards we would have been smashed up.” That in itself was enough to upset one’s nerves, but this was added to by just another trifling incident. The ordinary mail tram was running close behind, ’and there was a danger of the leading train being overrun. The guard put detonators on the line, and the ordinary, as it raced along, was' pulled up within 10 yards of the express. And nothing extra tvqs charged for all this!