EXPRESS TRAIN DERAILED
ENGINE CAPSIZES PBSTAL VAH AND CARRIAGE ALSO TURN OVER A LUCKY ESCAPE [Pin United Press Association.! OTAKI, July 25. The Auckland down express fouled * rail 100yds from Otaki station this morning, capsizing the engine, the postal van, and a second class smoker. No ono was injured, but a good deal of damage was done to tho line. The rail penetrated a portion of tho engine. Ninety passengers were on the train, seventeen being in the second class carriage, The smash was heard a quarter of a mile away. The Napier-bound passengers were transhipped and the Napier mail train returned, to Wellington, while an engine from Palmerston North will take the Auckland passengers north. The cause of tho accident was probably a defective rail, possibly due to the cold, frosty weather. Tho train was luckily travelling only at about twenty miles an hour owing to repairs in progress on the line.
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Evening Star, Issue 19617, 25 July 1927, Page 6
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153EXPRESS TRAIN DERAILED Evening Star, Issue 19617, 25 July 1927, Page 6
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