e. The failure of the horn plate of an engine.

f. The failure of the axle-guard of any vehicle in a passenger train.

g. The failure of any other part of locomotive engines, tenders or vehicles not included in the above which leads to an accident to a passenger train.

NOTE. Any return of the failure of a boiler, a tyre, or an axle, should be accompanied by a diagram with particulars of construction and failure, and by a description of the nature of the materials it was made of, and the amount of work it had performed. Failures of tyres. and axles should be reported on the forms approved by the Board of Trade.

2. As regards the permanent way and works.

h. The fracture of a rail in the permanent way of a passenger railway.

7. The "bursting" of the permanent way under a train on a passenger railway.

k. The failure of a bridge viaduct, or large culvert, or of any part of any of them.

1. The failure of a tunnel or of any part of it.

m. The failure of the roof or any important part of a

station.

n. Important slips in cuttings or embankments.

0. The failure of a revetment wall.

p. The flooding of a portion of permanent way.

q. The failure of any other portion of the permanent way or works not included in the above, which leads to an accident to a passenger train.

NOTE. In any return of the fracture of a rail the form of the rail should be stated the weight per yard; the material it was made of, the length of service it had done, the manner in which it was fixed and if a doubleheaded rail, whether it had or had not been turned at the time it broke.

3. Miscellaneous accidents to rolling stock and permanent way, such as

r. A train travelling in the wrong direction through points on the main line of a passenger railway.

s. An engine or train running over any horse, beast or other obstruction, or through the gate or gates of a level crossing on a passenger railway.

t. Any fire in any part of a train, or at a station, or involving injury to any bridge or viaduct on a passenger railway.

The Board of Trade do further order that notices of the accidents recited in sub-section 1 shall be sent to them in the following manner, viz.:

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All fatal accidents occurring in the working of railways whether to passengers, servants of railway Companies, or other persons, to be reported by telegraph or otherwise, within 24 hours after the occurrence of the accident, and non-fatal accidents to be reported by post as early as practicable.

Non-fatal accidents to servants of railway companies to be reported whenever they are such as to prevent the servant injured, on any one of the three working days next after the occurrence of the accident, from being employed for five hours on his ordinary work.

Non-fatal accidents to persons other than servants of the companies to be in all cases reported.

Every notice sent to the Board of Trade in pursuance of the foregoing provisions of the said section shall be in the form hereto annexed, except as regards the failures of tyres and axles which shall be in the Forms "B" and "C" respectively or as near thereto as circumstances admit.

Board of Trade, 31st October, 1895.

Courtenay Boyle.

Form A.

Form referred to in the foregoing Order.
Railway Company.

RETURN directed to be male to the Board of Trade of Accidents (in compliance with the Regulation of Railways Act, 1871, sect. 6).