TRAINS COLLIDE.
Engine-Driver And Fireman Injured. TRUCKS CAUSE OBSTRUCTION. (Received 12 noon.) SYDNEY, this day. Three goods trains were involved in a collision near Colecliffe, on the south coast line. The driver and fireman of a train, which was travelling on the up line, were seriously injured when the engine overturned after crashing into trucks lying across the line. It appears that two trains collided on the down line and the derailed trucks blocked the up line. No one was injured.
A few minutes later, however, the up train crashed into the obstruction. The driver, Laws, and the fireman, Foster, were released from the box of the engine with difiicultv.
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 257, 30 October 1929, Page 7
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