A RAILWAY ACCIDENT.
CAR PUSHED THROUGH STATION OFFICE. [Pib Peebb Association.] Westport, July 24. Shortly after 10 o'clock to-night, a. "C" engine was shunting a van on to the car sidings at the foot of Wakefield street, in the Westport railway yards, when the late goods train from Ngakawau, coming v- apparently against the signals, ran into the shunting engine and stationary cars. One car was driven right up on to the station pint form, through tlie office of the PermanentWay Inspector, and badly broken. The buffers and draw-gear of the other cars suffered considerable damage.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 81, 27 July 1914, Page 5
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96A RAILWAY ACCIDENT. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 81, 27 July 1914, Page 5
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