STRUCK BY LOCOMOTIVE
RAILWAY PORTER KILLED WHILE ON DUTY AT CROSSING NEW PLYMOUTH, 17th April. Struck by a shunting engine at the Tawhiti road level crossing near the Hawera Railway Station this afternoon, Robert Hugh Trask, aged 20, porter, a single man, was thrown against a cattle-stop pit and dragged across the road by the engine and killed. He was a son of Mr T. E. Trask, Eltham. When the accident occurred at about 1.30 p.m., Mr Trask had been on duty at the crossing for the arrival of a goods train from the south. It was passing him toward the station as he was struck by a locomotive travelling in the opposite direction on adjoining rails. It is believed 1 ' Mr Trask was preparing to swing himself into the guard’s van of the goods train as it passed the cattle-stop.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 18 April 1939, Page 3
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141STRUCK BY LOCOMOTIVE Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 18 April 1939, Page 3
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