SPECTACULAR RAILWAY COLLISION NEAR THE PARNELL OVER-BRIDGE LAST EVENING: TRAINS MEET HEAD-ON AND CREAT DAMAGE RESULTS Photographs taken last night after a shunt train, bound for Auckland, became out of control on a down grade, and collided violently with a mixed passenger and goods train near the Parnell over-bridge shortly after nine o'clock. Left: The two locomotives firmly interlocked. Centre: A wrecked f refrig«rator waggon and trucks. Right: The coal bunker of one of the locomotives pushed forward with a truck piled on top of it.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22878, 5 November 1937, Page 13
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86SPECTACULAR RAILWAY COLLISION NEAR THE PARNELL OVER-BRIDGE LAST EVENING: TRAINS MEET HEAD-ON AND CREAT DAMAGE RESULTS Photographs taken last night after a shunt train, bound for Auckland, became out of control on a down grade, and collided violently with a mixed passenger and goods train near the Parnell over-bridge shortly after nine o'clock. Left: The two locomotives firmly interlocked. Centre: A wrecked f refrig«rator waggon and trucks. Right: The coal bunker of one of the locomotives pushed forward with a truck piled on top of it. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22878, 5 November 1937, Page 13
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