TRUCKS BREAK AWAY.
DERAILED AFTER TRAVELLING AT HIGH SPEED.
United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) (Australian Press Association.) .Received 11.5 a.m., to-day. ADELAIDE, Jan. 12.
During shunting operation at Blount Lofty, ai guard’s van and twenty-one trucks broke away and dashed down the line at a speed of eighty miles an hour. Four and a-half miles away the trucks were derailed and some, were smashed to pieces. The track was uprooted. Pigs and sheep contained in the trucks and valued at £llOO were killed. None of the train crew was aboard.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 12 January 1929, Page 5
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