Train ploughs into station

Press, 25 September 1978, Page 8

Train ploughs into station

NZPA-Reutei Lisbon An express passenger train has smashed into' a village . station killing many pass Agers and injuring more than 100.

Railway officials in Libson said at least three bodies had been recovered from the tangled steel mass of four passenger cars that derailed and crashed into the platform at the Taveiro station, about 160 km north of Lisbon.

They said rescue crews sent to the crash site from the nearby city of Coimbra were searching the wreckage for missing passengers on

I the southbound express fron the northern city of Oporto. “We think a lot of peoplt are still trapped inside th< crumpled carriages," a res cue official said.

The cause of the acciden was not immediately deter mined, but a spokesman sak one of the train’s centre can appeared to have jumped tin tracks, tossing the last foui cars and a vehicle transport car off the rails. “When it happened, then was a hideous bang,” a Ta veiro railway employee said “Then came all the awfu screaming of the trapped people and the ambulances.”