Tangiwai Rail Disaster – New Zealand’s worst…

Search form SearchTODAY IN HISTORY SEE MORE Dec 24 1953, Tangiwai railway disaster Tangiwai railway disaster 24 December 1953 Train wreckage at Tangiwai (Alexander Turnbull Library, PAColl-4875-1-01-03) The worst railway disaster in New Zealand’s history occurred on Christmas Eve 1953, when the Wellington–Auckland night express plunged into the flooded Whangaehu River, just west of TangiwaiContinue reading “Tangiwai Rail Disaster – New Zealand’s worst…”

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