TRAINS COLLIDE.

Feilding Star, Volume 4, Issue 957, 23 November 1926, Page 8

TRAINS COLLIDE.

DAMAGE TO BOLLING STOCK, (Per Press' Association) Auckland, November 22. Further details of the railway smash between a goods train and the Rotorua express (reported on page 7) show that the cab of the coal train engine was derailed. The engine of the express had its axle box broken, the coverings were stripped off various parts and its cal) window was broken. The axle boxes were also stripped off the tender. The firemen of the express got his hands cut by broken glass. The engine of the other train scraped along the carriages of the express until the engine was pulled up and the train stopped, when the engine was locked to a carriage by a projecting roof. Passengers were considerably alarmed and crowded out of the carriages. The railway staff at once got to work to shift the trucks of coal and to jack the smaller engine back on the rails. Luckily the driver and fireman of the standing engine got clear in time. All the windows of the carriages behind the express engine were broken and the headings round them were ripped away. The engine was in charge of Driver Riddick and Fireman Holmes.