TIMARU TRAIN MISHAP.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19658, 9 June 1927, Page 10

TIMARU TRAIN MISHAP.

STATEMENT BY ENGINEER. RECENT INCIDENTS RECALLED. [BY TELEGRAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION.] TIMAKU, Wednesday. The Dunedin district railway engineer, interviewed this morning, stated that the Railway Inquiry Board had finished its investigations concerning the recent accident to the express train at Timaru, and had adjourned to Christchurch, where it will make further inquiries. The engineer stated that on April 14 an express was derailed at Caroline Bay, and tho police discovered a boy who admitted putting stones on the rails ten minutes before the train passed, and who watched the train go over them. On May 30 a railway officer was passing over the line round Caroline Bay on his velocipede, when he discovered 18 fiat stones on the rails, lying from 10ft. to 50ft. apart. The stones were about oin. across, and lin. thick. He stated that the express passed over that part of the line within ten minutes of tho stones being removed. , After the accident last Saturday marks were found on the top of the rail at the point of derailment of the engine wheels, showing where two stones had been crushed by the express.