VAN ON RAILWAY
TRAIN SHATTERS VEHICLE BUTTER LOAD SCATTERED [BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION*] DUNEDIN. Tuesday Crashing over a 20ft. embankment near St. Leonard's, a butter van belonging to tlie Co-operative Dairy Company, fell to the railway track. The driver was merely shaken and bruised, but, knowing that a train was due, he ran along the rails to stop it. However, he was too late, the engine smashing the upper bodywork of the van to splinters and scattering the butter far and wide.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23486, 25 October 1939, Page 10
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82VAN ON RAILWAY New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23486, 25 October 1939, Page 10
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