Steam Train head-on, Brunner. 1960.

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DescriptionThe Blackball bound train had wrongly passed the automatic departure signal at Brunner.
Sam Bell
It took out my out side tolet as i lieved in the house where it happenMap^[1]ContributorTom Hartill

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Location (city or town)BrunnerEventSteam Train head-on crash.

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CommentsPaul Agnes Smith
Quite a bit more to it....

Reece Cobb
Paul Agnes Smith please expand then!

Paul Agnes Smith
Reece Cobb Not on this site. NZR Historical is the place. Read the past posts. Or, ask Jeffrey..

Reece Cobb
Paul Agnes Smith could you provide a link?

Tony Warner
Reece Cobb Top secret Paul not a Chinese conspiracy to derail NZR hahahaha

Sonia Moore
I remember going there and dad taking pictures

Garry Chapman
So do I We were going to ChCh to thr Canterbury show ....had to go by bus

Robert Scott
This happened up by the Kiwi bridge. One of my sisters took me and my brothers up to see it, the morning it happened.

Ray Deo
Sackings a plenty

Jackie Fluerty
Would that be Jack Steele in the photo in the darker clothers

Sam Bell
It took out my out side tolet as i lieved in the house where it happen
Vern Pattinson
I seem to remember that as a young fellow

Bazza Morland
Dad took me for a look at the 'aftermath'.

Brooke King - This was the crash Grandad was in.

Donna Priest = Brooke King yep.

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Steam Train head-on, Brunner. 1960.

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