TRAMCARS DERAILED
COLLISION IN WELLINGTON PASSENGERS ALARMED [BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION] WELLINGTON, Thursday Meeting at the end of a loop 011 the single-track Wadestown line, two Wellington tramcars collided last night. Both cars were partially derailed. Half a dozen passengers in each car were alarmed and shaken, but escaped injury, although some of the woodwork in each car was splintered and windows were broken.
The cars met in a glancing collision, which forced the leading bogie of each off the rails, the two cars coming to rest exactly alongside each other. The two bogies, wrenched far out of their normal positions, ploughed into the clay beside the tracks and stopped
the cars. The line was blocked for the remainder of the night.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22948, 28 January 1938, Page 8
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