The Tangiwai Disaster

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The Tangiwai Disaster

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Palmerston North City Library

Collection

Manawatū Heritage

Description

New Zealand's worst rail disaster occurred at Tangiwai on the 24th of September 1953 on the North Island Main Trunk. An express train travelling from Wellington to Auckland carrying 285 passengers and crew drove over the Whangaehu River bridge when it collapsed because of a lahar flow from the crater lake on Mount Ruapehu. Six carriages were derailed and sent into the river below. The death toll of 151 consisted of 148 second-class passengers, one first-class passenger, the locomotive enginee...

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Date created

2019

Creator

Ella

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https://manawatuheritage.pncc.govt.nz/item/d2cf2660-3dfd-43d4-94d6-a806943624eb

Related subjects

locomotive disaster / tangiwai

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