TRAIN FOLLOWING THAT OF ROYAL PARTY DERAILED
Recd. 6 p.m. London, March A train folhiwing the Royai train and carrying the Royal party’s heavy baggage was derailed on the way from Umtata to Queenstown. The driver was pinned under the derailed engine for four hours and seriously injured. The fireman was also trapped and had an arm broken. Two trucks plunged 15 feet down an embankment and one saloon left the rails. Officials from the pilot train, which precedes the Royal train, returned by road to investigate.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 7 March 1947, Page 5
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