RAILWAY SMASH AT CLYDE.
The departure of Friday morning’s train was delayed for an hour and a half leaving Clyde owing to the engine and a passenger car leaving the rails and a sheep truck getting badly damaged during shunting operations. It appears that owing to pressure of work through loading a big lot of sheep for the Otureluia sale the process of shunting was being hurried up to get the train away up to time. A (lying shunt was attempted, with the result that a {passenger car lelt the rails and capsized, pulling the engine off with it. The sheep trucks following on crushed into the car, doing considerable damage to the undergear of both, and killing one of the sheep. The engine was jacked back on to the rails without much loss ot time but the removal ol the carriage was not so easily effected. Owing to heavy traffic further down the line the train was some three hours late reaching Dunedin.
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Dunstan Times, Issue 2584, 15 May 1911, Page 5
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164RAILWAY SMASH AT CLYDE. Dunstan Times, Issue 2584, 15 May 1911, Page 5
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