FALL FROM TRAIN.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 184, 5 July 1929, Page 8

FALL FROM TRAIN.

ESCAPE FROM INJURY. AUCKLAND, July 4. A fortunate escape from serious injury or death was experienced by a woman passenger on the south-bound Main Trunk express at an early hour the other morning, when she fell from a moving train, but escaped without a scratch. The express had left Raurimu and was* travelling at about 20 miles an hour before reaching the steeper gradients of the spiral which brings the line up to the Waimarino Plains. Two men passengers were standing on the platform on their carriage when they noticed a woman carrying a cup and saucer come from the door of the next carriage. She evidently wished to put the cup and saucer on the platform, where they could be easily collected. The men took no particular notice until they heard a crash of crockery, and saw the woman falling over the steps of the carriage. The emergency signal was given and the express was stopped. Tho guard, accompa'med by some passengers, walked back along the track to the scene of the accident, fully expecting to find the worst had happened. They were astonished, however, to distinguish a figure loom out of the darkness and presently they met the woman, who was absolutely unhurt. Apparently she had fallen well clear of the train and track bed on to the mud of the water-table. The relief of those travelling on the train,, including the woman’s little girl, may be imagined when the party returned to the train to report “all well.”