SHUNTING ACCIDENT
AT AUCKLAND STATION. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, Last N'glit. During shunting operations at the Auckland railway station at one o'clock this morning a goods van collided with two sationary trains through running on the wrong line. A concrete stop-block, about forty tons in weight, was carried about eight feet and, deposited on the station platform. A van mounted the block and crashed through the verandahs causing a big gap, tearing the iron The stationary v»ns were partially telescoped, the bogie wheels torn off one of them and the undergear wrecked. The accident, presumably, was due to a mistake in signals or setting the points.
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Wairarapa Age, 26 March 1920, Page 5
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106SHUNTING ACCIDENT Wairarapa Age, 26 March 1920, Page 5
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