TRAINS COLLIDE.
TWENTY-SEVEN PASSENGERS
INJURED.
(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION —BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH—COPYRIGHT.)
MELBOURNE, December 26
Twenty-seven persons were injured when a heavy goods train crashed head on into a passenger train which was standing at Tooradin Station last night. Only two of those injured are serious cases. The passenger tram would probably have been badly wrecked had its engine not absorbed most of the crash. The goods train was travelling at 25 miles an hour when the collision occurred. The assistant stationmaster made frantic efforts to stop the oncoming goods train by waving a lantern, but he was too late.
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Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19812, 27 December 1929, Page 9
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