DERAILMENT AVERTED
POLICEMAN'S PROMPT ACE WEDGE IN RAILWAY, POINTS j Press Association. —Copyright. AUCKLAND, Tuesday. At one minute past seven yesterday, evening a constable at Mount Edeni Police Station was rung up and informed by a man's voice that he had! just put a wedge between the points on the railway track under the overhead bridge near Mount Eden railway station. Asked for his name and address the man rang off. Constable Carson rushed from tKB police station, which is near the railway, and saw the Henderson to Auckland suburban train about to put brat from the station. He stopped it, and with railwaymen went to the bridge and discovered a strong batten nine feet long wedged between the tablet points leading off the main line to the shunting siding. Railway men consider that the engine would probably have been derailed. It was discovered that the batten had been removed from a nearby coal yard.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume I, Issue 256, 7 October 1931, Page 5
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