TWO TRAINS IN SMASH
TWENTY-SEVEN PERSONS INJURED COLLISION IN VICTORIA United P.A.—By Telegraph—Copyright Reed. 10 a.m. MELBOURNE, Today. Twenty-seven persons were injured when a heavy goods train crashed head-on into a passenger train which, was standing at the Tooradin station last night. Only two of those injured are serious cases. The passenger train would probably have been badly wrecked had its engine not absorbed most of the crash. The goods train was travelling at 25 miles an hour when the collision occurred.
Au assistant-stationmaster made frantic efforts to stop the coming goods train by waving a lantern, but he was too late.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 855, 26 December 1929, Page 9
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