LEVEL CROSSINGS
Sir, —1 have just read in the Herald another account of a accident on one of the railway level-crossings and shall be pleased if you can inform me whether there are any rules as to at what distance from the crossings the driver shall blow the whistle and for how long he shall blow it. Some time back I was caught by a train at a leviil-crossing and my companion killed. Certainly neither of us heard the whistle blown. Since that time I have taken particular notice, both while on trains and when near crossings, and in isome cases the whistle is blown on y a faction of a second, and in other cases, if blown at all, it is blown very indistinctly.' ' VICTIM V
r A railway official stated in reply to above inquiry that engine-drivers were instructed to sound one long, loud whistle at least 300 yds from any levelcroissing. In instances of the more dangerous crossings it was customary for the whistle to be sounded more than once.]
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22045, 27 February 1935, Page 15
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173LEVEL CROSSINGS New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22045, 27 February 1935, Page 15
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