TRAIN ACCIDENT.
TRUCKS DERAILED AT SHANNON. NARROW ESCAPE FROM SERIOUS RESULTS. . Tthen the morning down train from Palzaerson North was drawing into the Shannon railway station yesterday a waggon left the rails, this being due, it is thought, to a defect in the wheels*. The waggon ran along the metal for some chains, then bumped through a cattle stop almost immediately opposite MeKeggts hotel and overturned, taking four other waggons with it- The tracks, some of which were laden with timber, and the others empties, piled up. One fell right alongside the rail s, its wheels crashing through the sides of the first
carriage (a first-class smoker), which ploughed deeply into the metal, ran off the'rails,-and listed threateningly. Fortunately no one was seriously injured, though several were badly shaken. The trucks were very badly smashed up, and it was most fortunate that more damage was rot done . The passengers by the early up and down trains enanged train* at Shannon. and got away after about an hoar aud a half’s delay. A big gang of mer. set to work, aud had the line clear it a few Jj ocrs t the New Plymouth express being able to get through about an hoar and a half late. Mr E. Page: SAL. Mr T. Bevan (Levin) and Mr and Mrs Gifford Moore were among the passengers at the time of the accident.
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Otaki Mail, Volume 26, 13 June 1919, Page 2
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230TRAIN ACCIDENT. Otaki Mail, Volume 26, 13 June 1919, Page 2
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