THE PERIODIC TRAIN SMASH.
. AT LYTTKLTOX THIS TIME... (By Telcgraph-Prcss Association.) Christchurch, December '2X An unusual class of accident occurred at. Zytlelton just, before two o'clock this afternoon. II; appears that a number ol empty carriages which had been brought down by the 1.25 p.m. train, had been (Iclachcrt (o be shunted on to another line. Tho engine "kicked" thn carriages c ear, but, owing to the points not; being cleared, they ran back on (o the same line, and collided heavily with a train Vm mis sti " ulil, B at '■ho station platform. Iho passengers on tho train received a shock, and a little girl who was in the act of stepping on to the train was thrown on to the platform. Fortunately nobody was injured, but the hand-rails and buffers of tho trains wero twisted and broken.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/DOM19111226.2.17
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1320, 26 December 1911, Page 4
Word count
Tapeke kupu
139THE PERIODIC TRAIN SMASH. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1320, 26 December 1911, Page 4
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Dominion. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in