GOODS TRAIN DERAILED
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DRIVER AND FIREMAN HAVE A REMARKABLE ESCAPE SERIOUS DAMAGE RESULTS
By Telegraph-
LiUrCrj, June 10. A J class engine and seven wagons of the Invercargill -Dunedin night goods train were derailed when the engine struck a bullock wandering on the line, about 300 yards south of Gore borough boundary, at 11.23 p.m. last evening. The driver and fireman had a remarkable escape when the engine twisted at the cab and th.6 boiler section slewed round'at an angle. Several of the wagons, and the goods contained in them, were seriously damaged. The north passenger express, due to leave Gore at 8.14 a.m. to-day, was halted some distance south of the scene of the wreck, and the passengers were transhipped to Gore by Railways Road Service vehicles. A relief train was marshalled at Gore, and the passengers were despatched for the north this morning.
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Chronicle (Levin), 13 June 1946, Page 4
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147GOODS TRAIN DERAILED Chronicle (Levin), 13 June 1946, Page 4
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