TRAIN WRECKERS

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 106, 5 April 1926, Page 6

TRAIN WRECKERS

another ATTEMPT made.

OBSTRUCTION ON NAPIER LINE.

The fourth attempt m tess than & month to wreck a train withm three or four miles of Palmeiston N made on Saturday evening, when tne late mixed train from Napier ian an obstruction on a. W ' tossing about a mile on the Whakaronga of the municipal gasworks. Investigation revealed that tli gt( L gine had .struck seven cattle stop beams, which had been toi J .i xac tly laid crosswise over the metal ; •[_ the same kind of attempt at ment as was perpetrated on land line near Bunnythorpe eaily Saturday morning and at Ten ac and Kelvin Grove crossings on tne evening of March 8. , wheels In all cases the engine bogey whe smashed and scattered the u y ie out leaving the track, and in''ead^ «e escape from a major accid s 0 fortunate for the crossings . ‘ situated as to be sufhciei Y j from a station to ensure that tlie train would be travelling at a fair rate ° f When l ’the engine of th | train hit the obstruction on y night it lifted perceptibly as the bog y wheels crushed the beams,> b unaware the track. Passengers were unaware of anything unusual occurring ana not feel the shock. TELEPHONE "WIRES CUT. In connection with the Bunnythorpe incident on Saturday moriungittranspires that in addition to placing ob struction on the line and cutting the siunal control wires the tram wieckers severed a number of the telephone wires running alongside the [ a ' Tlie police are contmuing investiga tions.