Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 124, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 May 1912 — Runaway Engine Traveled Far. [ARTICLE]

Runaway Engine Traveled Far.

An engine had been attached to one of the mail trains to the western district of New South Wales, not long pgn, and after having heen turned on; the turntable at Katoomba station was, running back to the Penrith'locomotive depot along the turntable siding, when It took the "ifrrong line. After traveling about a hundred yards it ran over the end of the siding and embedded Itself heavily in the embankment at the foot of the railway cutting. The distance from the turntable to the scene of the derailment was sufficient to allow the engine to gain, considerable speed, and its momentum was so great when it crashed intothe bufferhead of thp* stopblock that the engine was practically carried over the obstacle. Before Its progress could be arrested the locomotive had traveled over a quantity of rocks. The engine toppled over on one side to such an extent that the boiler was nearly level with the permanent way.;