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Tangiwai New Zealand, 1953
Tangiwai, NZ
The destruction to the locomotive and one of the carriages of the Auckland-Wellington express. The train fell through a gap in a bridge which had been swept away by a lehar caused by water pouring from the crater of Mt. Ruapehu.
Article: Bridge Plunge of the Aukland Express

 


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