RACE DOWN AN INCLINE.
CRASH OF COAL TRUCKS. Forty loaded coal trucks which were waiting in the Abermain colliery yard at Abermain, Now South Wales, recently, broko away and raced down an incline. Tho trucks gained terrific pace, and finally crashed into a dead end near tho main line. Six waggons were derailed and they toppled over an embankment. Other trucks obstructed for several hours the traffic on the main line. Tho main lino was cleared by a breakdown gang. The damage is estimated at several hundreds of pounds.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19280, 19 March 1926, Page 16
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