RAILWAY COLLISION
THREE TRAINS INVOLVED TWO MEN INJURED (Received Out. 29. noon.) SYDNEY, Oct. 30. Three goods trains were involved in a collision near Colecliffe, on the South Coast line. The driver and fireman of a train which was travelling on the up line were seriously injured when the engine overturned niter crashing into the trucks lying across the line. It appears that two trains collided on the down line and the derailed trucks blocked the up line. No one was injured, but a few minutes later the up train crashed into the obstruction. The driver, Laws, and the fireman. Foster, were released from the box of the engine with difficulty.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17095, 30 October 1929, Page 7
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111RAILWAY COLLISION Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17095, 30 October 1929, Page 7
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