OBSTACLE ON RAILS
EFFORT TO WRECK EXPRESS DISCOVERY BY GANGER An attempt to derail the Broken Hill express train was frustrated near Parkes, New South Wales, recently. At five o'clock a ganger, Lovell Fuller, reported that'he had discovered an obBtruction on the railway bne about four miles from Cookamidgera and 15 miles from Parkes. It consisted of a piece of flat iron, two feet six inches long, eight inches: wide, and three inches thick, which was fastened to a rail by a piece of No. 8 wire. The police were unable to find tracks owing to the stony nature of the ground and the fact that a mob of sheep had since passed the spot. If the obstruction had not been found the Broken Hill express, which passed the place at 5.40 p.m., would have been derailed.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21663, 1 December 1933, Page 8
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