TRAIN DERAILED
PASSENGERS UNINJURED. Electric TelegrapTi —Frees Association DUNEDIN. This Day. A mixed train from Oamaru tame to gritef near Waikouaiti at 6 o’clock last night, 11 waggons being derailed. Apparently one waggon jumped the rails and was dragged some distance on the ballast before capsizing and derailing the rest. The passengers were uninjured. The Christchurch—Dunedin express was held up all night hut the passengers were transferred to a train beyond and arrived at Dunedin 40 minutes past midnight.
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10891, 19 July 1928, Page 6
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79TRAIN DERAILED Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10891, 19 July 1928, Page 6
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