TRAIN WRECKERS

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 105, 3 April 1926, Page 8

TRAIN WRECKERS

ANOTHER ATTEMPTED DERAILMENT.

BEAMS ACROSS LINES. SIGNAL 'WIRES. SEVERED AT BUNNYTHORPE. Another attempt at a railway derailment similar to that on the evening of March 8, wli.t cattle stop rails were placed across the metals at Terrace End and Kelvin road, was perpetrated at a crossing some two miles on tho Feilding side of Bunnythorpe this morning. The engine of the early goods train, which loaves Palmerston North at 3.30 a.m. for Marton, crashed into some obstructions at the crossing mentioned, about 4.30 this morning, the effect being similar to that when tho Limited express met with like trouble at Terrace End and Kelvin Grove. Again, there was a fortunate escape from derailment. A “Standard” reporter who investigated tho matter this morning learned that some six of the wooden cattle stop beams had been laid across tho permanent way and were smashed and scattered by the bogey wheels of the engine. , The individual or individuals concerned apparently did not stop at that for it is stated that the signal wires at the Bunnythorpe station were also cut and it may be assumed that this was a complement of the crossing Incident.

The police were advised and were investigating to-day. It would now appear that these are the actions of someone resident in this district, a presumption based upon tho fact that this morning’s incident took place within three or four miles of tho attempt to wreck the Limited at two crossings last month.