TRUCKS DERAILED
SECOND TIME IN THREE DATS j TRACK TORN UP FOR 100 YARDS I United Press Association) ASHBURTON, This Day. For the second time in three day* ! trucks of the midnight south-bound goods train jumped the tracks in the early hours this morning, several trucks being badly damaged and the track torn up for a hundred yards just north of Fairton station, three miles north of Ashburton. Fortunately the trucks derailed were inside the loop, over which the South express was able reaching here at eleven o’clock. Local trains were also delayed.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 12 May 1939, Page 6
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93TRUCKS DERAILED Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 12 May 1939, Page 6
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