ACCIDENT TO MAIN TRUNK TRAIN
JUMPS THE POINTS. Four Cars Dorailod. Driver's Promptitude Averts Injuries. (Per United Press Association.) AUCKLAND, June 30. The express train leaving Auckland at 9.13 last night, when nearing Te Kauwhata station’ about 11 p.m., caught the. siding points. The engine and mail vans ran down the siding points, and the rest of the train travelled along the main line. The four first carriages were dragged diagonally across by the engine, and derailed. The driver promptly shut off steam and stopped in 50 yards, jarring the passengers and breaking two windows, but injuring no one except a lady who wan cut on the arm with broken glass. The passengers were detained over seven hours, when they were transferred to the morning express from Wellington, and. with the mail van, proceeded on their way. There might have been a very serious disaster, but for the driver’s promptitude. Traffic will be seriously imjpeded on the line all to-day.
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Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXVI, Issue 13415, 30 June 1911, Page 5
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160ACCIDENT TO MAIN TRUNK TRAIN Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXVI, Issue 13415, 30 June 1911, Page 5
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