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LIMITED DASHES INTO SLEEPER PASSENGERS UNHURT E • Telegraph—Press Association TAUMARUNUI, this day. The north-bound Limited express at two o’clock yesterday morning struck a sleeping car on the southbound Limited, which was stationary at Pokako, -en mile? from Ohakune. The sleeping car was not, quite clear of the main line, and it was badly damaged, but no one was injured. One man, it is stated, crawled out of a hole in the side of the carriage. Both trains were delayed about two hours. The trains had been stationary prior to the accident, and the northbound train was moving out of the station when it struck the sleeper of the other train.
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Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XXVI, Issue 7912, 8 October 1929, Page 2
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