CRASHES ON TO CARRIAGE
WINDOWS OF TRAIN BROKEN BY TREE. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, December 8. Crashing on to a carriage in a passenger train at Styx during the train’s journey from Christchurch to Rangiora this afternoon, a tree which was brought down by a north-west gale broke most of the windows on one side of the carriage. A cut on the hand was received by one of the passengers. Mrs Bultitude, Spreydon, but’ none of the other passengers was injured. The crashed down on the track after Another tree crashed down on the track after the train passed, cutting the wire by which the Railways Department maintains communication with Rangiora. The signalling system was not affected. Due at Rangiora at 12.57 p.m., the train did not arrive there till 1.16 p.m., and it was eight minutes late arriving at Christchurch on its return journey, as there was considerable work to be done removing the tree from the line. The damaged carriage was replaced in Belfast.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 December 1938, Page 2
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