What the records say
- When
- 24 Dec 1953
- Kind
- Rail accident
- Coordinates
- 39.46° S, 175.58° E
- Description
- train wreck
- Deaths
- 151
Tangiwai disaster
1953 railway accident in New Zealand
The Tangiwai disaster was a 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.
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