BOULDER ON RAILWAY.
ACCIDENT NARROWLY AVERTED. AUCKLAND, Juno 1. A disaster to the Main Trunk express was averted by the narrowest of margins at the Raurimu rpiral on Saturday night. The second express from Wellington to Auckland contained 300 passengers, and when it reached the top of the spiral a boulder, weighing about half a ton, lay in its track. The engine-driver (Mr Alexander Whistler) promptly applied the Westinghouse brakes, and stopped the train in the nick of time, the cowcatcher of the engine actually biriking the boulder and being damaged. It took about an hour and a-half to remove the obstruction, and a new engine was secured at Taumarunui.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3403, 4 June 1919, Page 26
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110BOULDER ON RAILWAY. Otago Witness, Issue 3403, 4 June 1919, Page 26
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