Story: Wairarapa region
The railway line over the Rimutaka Range opened in 1878. Two years later, high winds on the Wairarapa side blew three carriages off the line and over the bank, killing four people. The catastrophe was depicted in this New Zealand Mail lithograph of 1880. Fences were built along exposed sections of the line to stop further accidents.
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Alexander Turnbull Library
Reference: B-034-004
Lithograph by J. H. Wallis
Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.