TRAINS COLLIDE
ACCIDENT IN VICTORIA 27 PERSONS INJURED .. • MELBOURNE, Dec. 6. Twenty-seven persons were inured when a heavy goods train! Crashed head-on into a passenger train IfMch was standing at Tooradin railway station last night. Only two of those injured are serious cases. The passenger train would probably have been badly wrecked had its engine , not absorbed most of the crasK The goods train was travelling at 25 miles per hour when the collision occurred. . , Tho assistant-stationmastor made frantic efforts to stop the oncoming goods train by waving a lantern but he was too late.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17143, 27 December 1929, Page 5
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95TRAINS COLLIDE Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17143, 27 December 1929, Page 5
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