TIMARU SMASH
COURT OF INQUIRY’S FINDING. “MERE EYEWASH.” (Per United Press Association.) Christchurch, June 15. “Mere eyewash,” was the description applied by an engine-driver of over 40 years’ experience to the finding of the Railway Court of Inquiry that the Timaru derailment was caused by stones on the line. “This is not the first time,” he said, “at the same spot that a derailment has occurred with the same class of engine. Stones could not cause it even once, let alone twice. If a stone big enough to put a 75 ton engine off the road could get under a cowcatcher the wheels would knock it off the line, I think, as the cowcatcher is only four inches above the rail.”
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Southland Times, Issue 20205, 16 June 1927, Page 8
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121TIMARU SMASH Southland Times, Issue 20205, 16 June 1927, Page 8
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