TRAINS COLLIDE

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LVII, Issue 10035, 26 March 1929, Page 3

TRAINS COLLIDE

PASSENGERS ESCAPE INJURY. (Per Press Association) Christchurch, March 2b A collision between a goods train and a mail train from the West Coast occurred at Kirwee at about 4.20 o’clock on Saturday afternoon. Three carriages were damaged, but although the passengers were thrown off their seats, no one was injured. The afternoon goods train was standing in the yard at the Kirwee station, when the mail train .from the West Coast, which arrives at Kirwee at 4.20, came round the bend of the line into the station. The mail train had passed the railway crossing at the entrance to the station and was pulling up as it entered the station but it struck the goods train which was standing on the same line with sufficient force for a shock. The collision threw the passengers in the mail train off their seats and created general alarm. No one was injured, but tic-buf-fer on the mail train’s engine was badly damaged, as were also the buffers of the first carriages. The slow passenger train, which follows the mail train, was held up at Darfield until the line could be cleared. It is stated that the accident was due to faulty signals.