The Highland Railway in one respect occupies a unique raUway history. Although the first portioti of the system was incorporated So long ago as 1866, not a single pasSeneer wa! lolled untiMß94. The first portfon was opened in 1858, so that for of thirty-six.years not a solitary passenger lost his life in a tram Sent, and, although over ten years hive elapsed since tie fatality and £u«?y mifiions of passengers have durSa the period traveUed over the. sysSm, the total of fataLtram accidents It passengers yet remaim .atone, and j may it long continue to do so.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 8310, 8 May 1905, Page 3
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97Page 3 Advertisements Column 3 Star (Christchurch), Issue 8310, 8 May 1905, Page 3
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