TRAIN DERAILMENT.
i PASSENGERS UNINJURED. NEW PLYMOUTH, Ihursday. Passengers on an express train from Wellington to New Plymouth bad to be transhipped by bus* from Lepperton to-night as a result of the derailment of a mixed goods train at the Smart Road station about 6.40 p.m. One meat van and four wagons fell on their sides and two trucks near .» passenger carriage were buckled to form a V. About 50 yards of the track was torn up. There were three passengers on the train, but they were uninjured. It was expected that the express train would be able to pass on a loop line later and that the New PlymouthWellington train would leave on schedule to-morrow morning.— (Press Assn.)
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 200, 23 August 1940, Page 3
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119TRAIN DERAILMENT. Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 200, 23 August 1940, Page 3
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