CRASH INTO SUP
COAL TRAIN WRECKED (PA.) GREYMOUTH, Feb. 10. Travelling through rain at 1.45 o’clock this morning between Tiroroa and Slatey’s Creek, about 18 miles from Westport and 10 from Inangahua, a coal train of about 500 tons going from Greymouth to Westport crashed into a slip, derailing the locomotive and piling- up 15 laden wagons. No one was injured, but the train is expected to be a total loss.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25457, 11 February 1944, Page 4
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