Attempts to Derail Train
P.A. AUCKLAND, Feb. 29. In two separate attempts to derail traffic, four steel fishplates and a sleeper were placed on the r main south railway line at Purewa tunnel, about four miles from Auckland Station, on Friday night. _ The plot was thwarted by the watchfulness of the crews on ?, trains passing on the inward track, • and they were responsbile for the - obstruction being removed before an accident occurred.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26708, 1 March 1948, Page 7
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