RAILWAY MISHAP.
ACCIDENT AT STATION
(P.A.) WELLIXGTOX, this day. A mishap causing the derailment of a passenger car and damage to the permanent way occurred at the Wellington railway station this morning. The stationmaster declined to give any information, but it was learned that a line of carriages being backed into a platform crashed into a buffer with such force that the buffer was dislodged, rails were thrown out of alignment, and sleepers torn up for several yards. The carriages were not damaged, but the middle one came to rest with its wheels off the rails and its side leaning against the platform. The train services were not interfered with.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 87, 14 April 1941, Page 8
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110RAILWAY MISHAP. Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 87, 14 April 1941, Page 8
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