TREE BREAKS TRAIN WINDOWS
ACCIDENT AT WHANGAREI (From Our Own Correspondent.) WHANGAREI, To-day. Fourteen windows were smashed when a tree fell across the Opua"VVhangarei express on Saturday afternoon. * Just as the train was passing the tree the force of the gale uprooted it and hurled it across the engine. Before the train could be pulled up the branches had scraped along the two first carriages on the train, breaking the windows and startling the passengers. The accident occurred as the train approached the Whakapara station. None of the passengers were injured, and no damage other than the breaking of the windows was done. The train arrived at Opua on time, although it was delayed for five minutes while gangers cleared the tree off the line and the carriages.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 401, 9 July 1928, Page 13
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