GOODS TRAIN WRECKED.
THE FIREMAN KILLED. ENGINEDRIVER INJURED. SYDNEY, June. 10. A goods train bound from Sydney to Werris Creek got out of control and was derailed near Murrurundi. « The fireman, John Herrernan, was killed and the driver, Holt, was sent to the hospital suffering from severe bui'ns. - . The train was completely wrecked- , It is stated that the driver and the fireman were ' overcome with fumes in a tunnel. The train dashed several miles at high speed with the enginemen lying unconscious in the cab. Werris Creek is a station on the northern line in • New South Wales, where the., branch line to Nar nab intakes its departure, 155 mile's from Newcastle. Murrurundi is 192 miles north-west of Sydney, a.t the foot of the Liverpool range of mountains.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 4999, 12 July 1926, Page 3
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128GOODS TRAIN WRECKED. Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 4999, 12 July 1926, Page 3
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