TRAIN MISHAP
ENGINE JUMPS LINE EXPRESS DELAYED TWO HOURS (By Telegraph..—Press Association) TAUMARUNUI, Saturday When a train comprising an engine, five carriages and a guard’s van was returning to Taumarunui late last evening after dropping passengers at Tangarakau, the engine jumped the line in the Mangapara Station yard, five miles from Ohura. No one was injured and no serious damage was done. The New Ply-mouth-Auckland express was delayed two hours. The derailed engine and carriages were brought to Taumarunui this afternoon.
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Waikato Times, Volume 126, Issue 21041, 17 February 1940, Page 6
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