TRAIN OFF RAILS

Stratford Evening Post, Volume IV, Issue 224, 2 September 1936, Page 5

TRAIN OFF RAILS

CARRIAGE OVERTURNS ~ j . SYDNEY DISASTER. v Driver Hurled To Permanent Way. • * . } LUCKY ESCAPE. Press Association —Copyright, Sydney, August 30. When three carriages iof an electric train left the rails near the Bankstown car shops to-day, one carriage overturned and crashed into a stanchion and the driver was hurled from his cabin to the permanent way. Tne driver was Arthur Cliit, 47, oC Chapel Street, Beimore, He is now in Canterbury District Hospital suffering from severe shock. The train, which consisted of. eight! carnages, was being driven from tha car shop to commence service for the af.omoou traffc between Bankstown and Sydnev. . . r si 4 • All traffic Is the cor shop and; i'nnchbowl-Baukstown district wasi ru pended for some time, the mishap causing a cut-out of the electric current.

A break down gang left Eveleigh a few minut es a (ter the smash.

The train was travelling only About five miles an hour.

The driver was amazingly' fortunate that, in being thrown out, he was hurled clear of the carriage as it overtudned. The guard, Raymond Barnes, who was in a back carriage, was not hurt. The stanchion was broken down. No Windoiws Broken. The pantagraphs—current apparatus —on two of tae cars were badly smashed, and some woodwork on the three derailed carriages was damaged. A curious feature of the mishap was that not one window in th&^de,y railed cars was broken. Pending resumption of usuat* traffic, expected before the' peak-hour period, single line working was introduced.