RAILWAY ACCIDENT. A TRAIN RUNS INTO A LANDSLIP. TRUCKS DERAILED AND OVERTURNED.
[BY TELEGRAPH — PRESS ASSOCIATION.] ASHBURTON, This Day! About 10.30 last night a stock train bound for Addington ran into a landslip in a cutting near Ealing. The engine and eight trucks were derailed, and three trucks overturned. A relief train with a permanent-way gang was sent out, and the men have been working all night, but the damage is not yet repaired. At noon the morning train from Timaru, due here at 10.30, had not arrived, and the frain for the South, due out at 11, had not left. Later. - The slip has now been cleared away, and railway traffic resumed.
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Evening Post, Volume LXVIII, Issue 89, 12 October 1904, Page 6
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113RAILWAY ACCIDENT. A TRAIN RUNS INTO A LANDSLIP. TRUCKS DERAILED AND OVERTURNED. Evening Post, Volume LXVIII, Issue 89, 12 October 1904, Page 6
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