
Train Derailment, Manawatu Gorge
- Description
Two engine crew were presumed drowned when a goods train was derailed by a slip and fell into the Manawatu river. The body of the driver was recovered from Foxton Beach; the body of the fireman was never found. The locomotive involved in this tragic accident was Ka951.
Identification
- Object type
- Image
- Date
- August 20, 1946
- Digitisation ID
- 2013G_ELMAR-F260_007000
- Held In
- Coolstore