A number of carriages ivere damaged when the north-bound Limited ivas derailed at Mercer on Monday morning. Tivo pictures shoiving the overturned locomotive and the front carriage, in which ten people were injured, appeared on this page yesterday, and this picture illustrates the damage done to several following carriages of the train. "Sport and General" Photo. Five boy survivors from a ship carrying children overseas, wearing iheir life-saving equipment on the rescue ship. (Evening Post, 30 October 1940)

A number of carriages ivere damaged when the north-bound Limited ivas derailed at Mercer on Monday morning. Tivo pictures shoiving the overturned locomotive and the front carriage, in which ten people were injured, appeared on this page yesterday, and this picture illustrates the damage done to several following carriages of the train. "Sport and General" Photo. Five boy survivors from a ship carrying children overseas, wearing iheir life-saving equipment on the rescue ship. (Evening Post, 30 October 1940)
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30-10-1940
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A number of carriages ivere damaged when the north-bound Limited ivas derailed at Mercer on Monday morning. Tivo pictures shoiving the overturned locomotive and the front carriage, in which ten people were injured, appeared on this page yesterday, and this picture illustrates the damage done to several following carriages of the train. "Sport and General" Photo. Five boy survivors from a ship carrying children overseas, wearing iheir life-saving equipment on the rescue ship. (Evening Post, 30 October 1940). Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/17759101

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