FALL ONTO RAILWAY
BUTTER VAN WRECKED
STRUCK BY TRAIN
(Per Press Association.) DUNEDIN, this day. Crashing over a 20ft. embankment near St. Leonard’s, a butter van belonging to a co-op dairy company fell on to the railway track. The driver was merely shaken and bruised. Knowing that the. train was due, he ran along the rails to stop it, but - was too late, the engine smashing the upper body work of the van to splinters and scattering the butter far and wide.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20077, 25 October 1939, Page 11
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82FALL ONTO RAILWAY Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20077, 25 October 1939, Page 11
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