Otago Daily Times
A steam crane clears wreckage of a derailed train at Opapa, Te Aute, Hawke’s Bay. A fire immediately after the September 23, 1925 accident led to the refitting with electric lighting of all gas-lit trains. Photo: Otago Witness, 6.10.1925 The work of equipping railway carriages with electric light in place of gas is to be accelerated, so that it will be completed at least a year earlier than was originally planned.
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