6 Jan 2012

Are We There Yet? - Tangiwai rail disaster

From Kiwi Summer

Tangiwai means 'weeping waters', and the name seemed sadly apt in 1953, when a lahar destroyed the railway bridge and a passenger express plunged into the river killing 151 people.

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