LIMITED EXPRESS CRASHES INTO SLIP AT PARAPARAUMU —VIVID PICTURES OF THE SCENE. —The Auckland-Wellington Main Trunk express TV as derailed at 6.25 yesterday morning when it ran into a slip a quarter of c mile past the Paraparaumu railway station. Top left is the engine which plunged into the slip and turned over, the driver and fireman escaping uninjured. Top right, the carriage immediately behind the engine, which was smashed to pieces. The passengers had a miraculous escape from death, only five of them being injured. Below arc two p further pictures of the wreck. "
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 206, 31 August 1936, Page 5
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95LIMITED EXPRESS CRASHES INTO SLIP AT PARAPARAUMU—VIVID PICTURES OF THE SCENE.—The Auckland-Wellington Main Trunk express TV as derailed at 6.25 yesterday morning when it ran into a slip a quarter of c mile past the Paraparaumu railway station. Top left is the engine which plunged into the slip and turned over, the driver and fireman escaping uninjured. Top right, the carriage immediately behind the engine, which was smashed to pieces. The passengers had a miraculous escape from death, only five of them being injured. Below arc two p further pictures of the wreck. " Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 206, 31 August 1936, Page 5
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