BOYS' ESCAPADE

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23773, 28 September 1940, Page 12

BOYS' ESCAPADE

GRUELLING TRAIN RIDE GLASGOW TO LONDON LONDON. SeptT™ 7 Two Glasgow boys, seeking something Jnore exciting than air raids, undertook - ja gruelling, but adventurous, trip to . Xiondon, "just for fun." They travelled from Glasgow, clinging to a precarious iiding-place between the wheels of the night express. The journey lasted 10 hours, and all that time the boys' heads were resting on a box containing the carriage's electrical gears. Their bodies were / balanced on two sharp-edged steel rails, a foot apart, which were not long enough to allow their legs to be full find stretched. Their cramped position was all the fcnoro uncomfortable because the grimecovered box was too high to enable them properly to rest their heads, and jfchey were forced to support them partly on the neck and partly on the jbands. Maintenance men tapped the wheels &t three stops, but did not notice the hoys,' who, although the train stopped I-- four times, never left their dangerous v. perches. They slept fitfully beneath a (comfortable sleeping-car. . - - Platelayers in London saw the boys come from beneath the train and ehouted. The boys ran off, but the elder one tripped on an electric rail pnd became unconscious. He is in hos- _ - . jpital and on the danger list, but the doctors think his toughness will save Jaim.