GOODS TRAIN DERAILMENT AT POKENO
One of the biggest and most serious derailments in the history of New Zealand's railways occurred at the Pokeno Station at 11 o'clock last Thursday night. About seventeen wagons on a train bound from Auckland to Taumarunui were derailed, sixteen of them telescoped and piled one on top of the other, forming a huge mass of shattered wagons and merchandise.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 28, 2 August 1926, Page 9
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65GOODS TRAIN DERAILMENT AT POKENO Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 28, 2 August 1926, Page 9
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