SAVED BY THE WESTINGHOUSE BRAKE.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13536, 12 October 1907, Page 2

SAVED BY THE WESTINGHOUSE BRAKE.

CHRISTCHITRCH, Oct. 11. * The express train from Culverden last evening, consisting of four cars, a mail van, and. two luggage vans>,had a narrow escape from a serious acoident. She was running down the incline south of Balcairn station at a considerable but not more than ordinary speed. On the sharp curve near Sefton, known as Death's corner, the two front wheels pf the bogey on the locomotive left the metals at -itheroad crossing in the centre of the curve. The engine-driver pr6mptly applied the Westinghouse brake, "sanding" the rails, and pulled up the train before it had travelled more than double its own length. Fortunately the other .wheels of the bogey kept on the metals* otherwise the train would almost immediately have gone off the line into a deep depression beside it.