Traffic Dislocation When Train Derailed
GREYMOUTH, July 31. A locomotive and 12 out of 21 wagons of a mixod goods train from Blackball, was derailed vesterdav at 10.45 a.m. shortlv after passing Ngahere station en route to Greymouth. Eight wasrons were destroved and also the locomotive tender. The line was re* stored this evening, enabling two goods trains from Buller and Tnangahna that had been he\d up, to proceed to the East Ooast carrving a total of 1000 tons of coal and t.imber. Four hundred Buller excursionists returning from "Dunedin had to be brought here this afternoon and conveved to^Vestport by 15 road serviee buses. v-'
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Chronicle (Levin), 1 August 1949, Page 5
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106Traffic Dislocation When Train Derailed Chronicle (Levin), 1 August 1949, Page 5
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