ACCIDENT TO TRAIN
FOURTEEN TRUCKS DERAILED NO PASSENGERS INJURED (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) Dunedin, July IG. The mixed goods and passenger train from Oamaru, which is due at Dunedin at 8.10 p.m., encountered serious trouble at Waikouaiti to-night, no fewer than 14 trucks leaving the rails just on the northern side of the station. Those immodiconcerncd are rather reticent, and tlie cause of the mishap has not yet been ascertained. In some of the passenger cars there were a number of school children, but beyond a severe shaking and a fright, they were fortunately unharmed. The derailment, held up the express from Christchurch for some hours, and also involved passengers in tlie inconvenience of having to tranship with their belongings, to another train, which will bring them on to Dunedin, where they are expected about midnight. It is anticipated that the line will lie cleared in sufficient time to permit of the Christchurch-Inver-cargill night express keeping to its schedule
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 247, 19 July 1928, Page 9
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158ACCIDENT TO TRAIN Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 247, 19 July 1928, Page 9
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