RAILWAY ACCIDENT
OAR PUSHED THROUGH STATION OFFICE. Press Association. WESTPORT, July 24. Shortly after 10 o’clock to-night, a "C” engine was shu ting a van on to the car sidings at the foot of Wakefield street, in the Westport railway yards, when the late goods train from Ngakawau, coming in apparently against the signals, ran into the shunting engine ond stationary cars. One car was driven right up on to the station platform, through the office of the Permanent Way Inspector, and badly broken. The buffers and draw-gear of the other cars suffered considerable damage.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIX, Issue 8794, 25 July 1914, Page 6
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95RAILWAY ACCIDENT New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIX, Issue 8794, 25 July 1914, Page 6
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