TRAIN SMASH.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 10958, 26 December 1911, Page 4

TRAIN SMASH.

(Per Press Association.) Lyttclton, December 24. The usual class of accident occurred at Lyttclton. Just before 2 o'clock this afternoon a number of empty carriages which had been brought jdown by the' 1.23 p.m. traiii we'revcletaclied, to be shunted on to another line. The engine "kicked" the carriages clear, but owing ■to the .. points not being cleared they ran back on the same line, and collided heavily with a train that was standing at tho station platform. .-.•;. ' The passengers on the train received a shock, and a little girl who was in the act of stepping on to the train was thrown on to the platform. Fortunately nobody was injured, but the hand rails and buffers of the trains were twisted and broken.