Mixed Train Derailed
WANGANUI, Monday. The driver and fireman o£ a mixed train which left Taumarunui for Stratford on Saturday evening had a fortunate escape from injury when the locomotive, weighing 90 tons, ran into a slip shortly after eight o’clock and overturned. Eight waggons following the engine were derailed, but two passenger cars and the van remained on the track. Nobody was injured. The mishap occurred between Nihoniho and Toitoi, two small flag stations, about 10 miles from Okahukura, on the Stratford line.
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Northern Advocate, 18 May 1943, Page 4
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