TRAIN DERAILMENT
ACCIDENT ON REEFTON LINE PASSENGERS ESCAPE INJURY (Per United Press Association) GREYMOUTH, March 6. The line to Reefton was blocked this morning by the derailment at Tawhai of 10 wagons and two carriages of a mixed train bound for Grcymouth, The permanent way was torn up for 60 yards, but the engine remained on the rails. There iwerc few passengers on the train, and none was injured. It is expected that the line will be cleared late to-night. A breakdown train has left Greymouth.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22824, 7 March 1936, Page 14
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86TRAIN DERAILMENT Otago Daily Times, Issue 22824, 7 March 1936, Page 14
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