RAIL MISHAP
MIXED TRAIN OFF LINE PASSENGERS UNINJURED (By Telegraph.—Press Association) NEW PLYMOUTH, Thursday Passengers on an express train from Wellington to New Plymouth had to be transhipped by bus from Lepperton to-night as a result of the derailment of a mixed goods train at the Smart Road station about 6.40 p.m.
One meat van and four waggons fell on their sides and two trucks near a passenger carriage were buckled to form a V. About 50 yards of the track was torn up. There were three passengers on the train, but they were uninjured. It was expected that the express train would be able to pass on a loop line later and that the New Ply-mouth-Wellington train would leave ©n schedule to-morrow morning.
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21199, 23 August 1940, Page 2
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