RUNAWAY GOODS TRAIN.
A Foreman’s Plucky Action. Press Association.—Telegraph.—Copyright. Received January 27, 10.50 a.m. MELBOURNE, January 27. A special inquiry is being held re the holiday runaway goods train between Lancefield and Sunbury. For some unexplained reason the brakes failed, and the train travelled at the rate' of 60 miles an hour. A departmental foreman, who was travelling on the van, pluckily climbed from a truck and put on the hand brakes, which brought the train to a standstill.
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Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXV, Issue 12984, 27 January 1910, Page 5
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79RUNAWAY GOODS TRAIN. Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXV, Issue 12984, 27 January 1910, Page 5
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