TWO TRAIN SMASHES
N.S.W. HOLIDAY MISHAPS NO PASSENGERS HURT (Australian and N.Z. Press Association) SYDNEY, Sunday. When the holiday traffic yesterday to the Blue Mountains was at its height an engine and two carriages left the rails at Toongabbie, 18 miles from Sydney. The passengers were hurled on tqp of one another. Nobody was injured, but several persons are suffering from shock. Another train on the same line crashed into the rear of a stationary train at Sevenhills, 20 miles west of Sydney. One carriage was badly smashed. Again nobody was injured. This accident was the result of the disorganisation caused by the* first mishap. Eye-witnesses declare that it was miraculous that many passenifers were not killed.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 545, 24 December 1928, Page 11
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117TWO TRAIN SMASHES Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 545, 24 December 1928, Page 11
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