GOODS TRAINS COLLIDE
ACCIDENT NEAR RANGIORA. ROLLING STOCK DAMAGED BUT NO ONE INJURED. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. Two goods trains collided head-on north of Rangiora Station at 7.40 this morning. Both engines were derailed and were left locked together, and five wagons also left the line. Nobody was injured. At the time of the smash one train was stationary and the other approached from the north. The engine from the north had a van only attached. When the trains came to a standstill, both engines were off the line and two wagons attached to the stationary train were at right angles 'co the track. It is believed that weather affected a distant signal and. by the time the driver of the train from rhe north picked up the home signal he was unable to pull up. The collision occurred about 50 yards inside the home signal. ______
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 November 1942, Page 4
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