EXTENT OF DAMAGE

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 125, 23 November 1926, Page 5

EXTENT OF DAMAGE

AUCKLAND, 22nd November. A later message^, states that the express engine collided with the Glen Massey train which was standing at the Frankton end of the Ngaruawahia station. The cab of the Glen Massey engine was driven against the end of tho boiler and the engine was derailed. The engine of the express had an axle box broken, coverings stipped off various parts, and the cab window broken. The axle boxes were also stripped off the tender. The fireman of i tho express had his hands cut by broken glass. The engine of the Glen Massey train scraped along tho. carriages of the express until the engine was pulled up. When the train stopped the engine was locked to a carriage by a projecting roof. The passengers were considerably alarmed, and crowded out of the carriages. The railway staff at once got to work to shift the trucks of coal attached to tho Glen Massey engine and to jack the latter back on to the rails. All the windows of the carriages behind the express engine wore broken, and the headings round them were ripped away. Several windows were also broken in other carriages, the headings torn off, and the roofs broken at the edge. Though the Glen Massey engine's cab was smashed and some of the engine controls destroyed the main body was apparently undamaged.