STRANGE COLLISION.
THREE TRAINS CONCERNED STOCK LIBERATED. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. PERTH, Dec. 22. A sensational railway collision occurred on the main Perth to Fremantle line, six miles from Perth, early this morning, resulting in the derailment of SO fully laden trucks and the death of a large number of Stock. The train, when approaching Swanburne, was crashed into by another train. Just as the debris was being dragged clear of the line another train crashed into the wreckage. A'll the engines remained on the metals hut the trucks of all except the third train were telescoped. Tire force of the impact was so severe that the trucks’, sides hurst and released droves of sheep and pigs many of which were mowed down by the third train. It will be many hours before normal traffic is resumed.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 23 December 1927, Page 8
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136STRANGE COLLISION. Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 23 December 1927, Page 8
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