TRAIN MISHAP
COLLISION AT AUCKLAND. TWO ENGINES DAMAGED. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND. March 4. Slight damage to both engines occurred when two slowly moving trains met in a head-on collision a few hundred yards from the Auckland railway station shortly after noon today. Nc. one was injured. A mixed train from Maungaturotc was just approaching the station when it met a suburban passenger train leaving for Papakura between the overhead bridges on the line through Parnell. The cowcatcher of one engine was torn off and that of the other badly bent Little other damage occurred, though several rails were displaced. About three-quarters of an hoir elapsed before the line could be clear ed and slight dislocation to suburban traffic resulted.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 March 1940, Page 7
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