MISHAP ON RAILWAY.
SERIOUS SMASH AVERTED. (Pf/r Press Association.) AUCKLAND. | January 29. A serious accident to the HelensvilleAuckland train was averted on Saturday evening by the promptness of the engine-driver in pulling up alien the forepart, of the engine went oft the rails, owing to an accumulation of road metal, presumably piled up by boys. Had the engine run on to the cattle stops just ahead, a smash would have been almost inevitable.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 16952, 29 January 1923, Page 7
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73MISHAP ON RAILWAY. Star (Christchurch), Issue 16952, 29 January 1923, Page 7
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