COLLISION AT THORNDON
PASSENGER AND STOCK TRAINS FOUR TRUCKS WRECKED (By Telegraph.—Press Association) WELLINGTON, This Day. A passenger train from Lower Hutfc collided with the rear end of a _ stock train shunting across the main line at Thorndou, at 7.40 a.m., derailing and' wrecking four trucks and killing ten sheep. Tho permanent way was very little damaged, hut some time was occupied clearing the wreckage. Only one outward train was held up, that “ being the Wairarapa express, which left at 9.15 o’clock, instead of 7.50. The 7 a.m. inward suburban passenger trains, however, were blocked and strung out along the lino towards Kaiwarra.
A departmental inquiry is in progress.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 12 February 1929, Page 2
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