Tangiwai disaster
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tangiwai-disaster-176-2961453
title:
Tangiwai disaster
text:
The Tangiwai disaster was a deadly railway accident that occurred at 10:21 p.m. on 24 December 1953, when a railway bridge over the Whangaehu River collapsed beneath an express passenger train at Tangiwai, North Island, New Zealand. The locomotive and the first six carriages derailed into the river, killing 151 people. The subsequent board of inquiry found that the accident was caused by the failure of the tephra dam holding back nearby Mount Ruapehu's crater lake, creating a rapid mudflow (laha
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encyclopedia
description:
1953 railway accident in New Zealand
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tangiwai_disaster
date created:
2003-08-31T23:17:37Z
date modified:
2024-09-03T19:04:12Z
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