A VIEW CF THE WRECKED GOODS TRAIN, SHOWING THE EXTENT OF THE DAMAGE, WHICH IS ESTIMATED AT £l0,000. On Thursday afternoon last (May 15) a goods train, consisting of 32 vehicles, including the guard’s van, left Ohakune at 5 o’clock, with a load of between 400 and 500 tons. After negotiating the stiff incline to Waiouru, the train was proceeding down the other side past Gardiner’s siding, when she got out of control, presumably owing to the brakes failing to act. She soon gathered up a speed of 100 miles an hour, and when negotiating the curve at the bottom of the hill the engine shot off the track and the train was wrecked. The driver, Mr. T. Welsh, of Taihape, sustained fatal injuries, while Fireman McDonald was badly scalded, and Guard Batty also suffered injuries and shock.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1517, 22 May 1919, Page 34

A VIEW CF THE WRECKED GOODS TRAIN, SHOWING THE EXTENT OF THE DAMAGE, WHICH IS ESTIMATED AT £l0,000. On Thursday afternoon last (May 15) a goods train, consisting of 32 vehicles, including the guard’s van, left Ohakune at 5 o’clock, with a load of between 400 and 500 tons. After negotiating the stiff incline to Waiouru, the train was proceeding down the other side past Gardiner’s siding, when she got out of control, presumably owing to the brakes failing to act. She soon gathered up a speed of 100 miles an hour, and when negotiating the curve at the bottom of the hill the engine shot off the track and the train was wrecked. The driver, Mr. T. Welsh, of Taihape, sustained fatal injuries, while Fireman McDonald was badly scalded, and Guard Batty also suffered injuries and shock.