PERILOUS RIDE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18235, 2 November 1933, Page 6

PERILOUS RIDE

GIRL ON TRUCK BUFFERS TRIP OF U MILES A remarkable experience befell a young woman who resides at, Alosgiel while she was on her way to work in Dunedin. The girl, who is about 20 yeai's of age, leaves Alosgiel daily -by the five minutes past seven train, and it has apparently been her practice, in common with others, to take a short-cut to the pa-ssenger platform by going across tittZr' railway yards. * . r Git Tuesday morning she found her way blocked by the southward-bound goods train, which was drawn up on the line between her arid the train to Dunedin. The girl had just mounted the buffers between two sheep wagons to cross over, when the train started, and she was apparently unable to alight. She was noticed in her parlous position by passengers on the train for Dunedin, and railway officials were at once informed. By this time, however, the train had run past the signal-box, and it could not therefore be stopped by an official there. Die Allanton sta- . tion, four miles and a half from Mosgiel, was communicated with, and the train stopped there. Immediately it came to a standstill the girl, who had fortunately decided not to try to jump off as the train sped on, scrambled down from her dangerous position, and made straight back to Alosgiel. The distance, as stated, between the two stations, is four miles and a half, but the girl was so little distressed by her dangerous trip thflt she covered the mileage in sufficiently quick time to enable her to catch the quarter-past-eigbt train from Mosgiel to Dunedin.