RAILWAY STATION FATALITY
MAN PALLS BETWEEN CAR- , RIAQES. Press Association. AUCKLAND, May 28. Peter "Walker, sixty-five years of ago, *aet with a fatal mishap at Avondale railway station at 5.20 o’clock this evening. At this hour two trains meet at the station, the inward and outward Kaipara trains. It appears that a middle-aged man boarded the train at Mount Eden more or less the worse for liquor. On reaching Avondale the Kai-para-bound train takes tho outer set of rails, tho inner track being reserved for tho city-bound train. Passengers alighting at Avondale have either to alight on the opposite side to the platform or cross the other train. Deceased evidently chose the latter alternative. He successfully negotiated the steps of tho carriages, and had reached tho station platform, when he was seen to lurch and fall between the first and second carriages. "When picked up life was extinct.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8441, 29 May 1913, Page 7
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