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THE VICTORIAN RAILWAY DISASTER

The Brake Tests

Now said to be a Partial Failure

Press Association. — Telegraph.— Copyright.

Received April 30, 9.29 a.m.

MELBOURNE, April 30.

It transpires that, though yesterday's tests at Braybrook proved the Westinghouse brakes to bo effective in stopping the trains, they failed to act in the case of one or two carriages, and Maclean, contended that, if they failed on individual vehicles, occasion might arise when they might fail altogether.

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Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXII, Issue 12452, 30 April 1908, Page 5

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THE VICTORIAN RAILWAY DISASTER Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXII, Issue 12452, 30 April 1908, Page 5

THE VICTORIAN RAILWAY DISASTER Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXII, Issue 12452, 30 April 1908, Page 5

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