TRAIN DERAILED
Express Later Held Up
(By Telegraph—Press Association.) NEW PLYMOUTH, August 22.
Passengers on an express train from Wellington to New Plymouth had to be transhipped by bus from Lepperton tonight as the result of the derailment of a mixed goods train at Smart Road station about 6.40 p.m. One meat van and four wagons fell on their sides, and two trucks near a passenger carriage were buckled to form a V. About 50 yards of track was torn up. There were three passengers on the train, but they were uninjured. It was expected that the express train vyottld be able to pass on the loop line later, and that the New Plymouth-Welling-ton train would leave on schedule tomorrow morning.
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Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 282, 23 August 1940, Page 3
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121TRAIN DERAILED Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 282, 23 August 1940, Page 3
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