Suchergebnisse
Suchergebnisse:
Der Eisenbahnunfall von Tangiwai am 24. Dezember 1953 ist der schwerste Eisenbahnunfall in der Geschichte Neuseelands. Mit 151 Toten forderte er mehr Opfer als alle vorangegangenen Eisenbahnunfälle in Neuseeland zusammen.
The Tangiwai train 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.
New Zealand's worst railway disaster occurred 60 years ago on Christmas Eve 1953, when the Wellington–Auckland night express plunged into the swollen Whangaehu River near Tangiwai. Of the 285 people on board, 151 were killed. The tragedy stunned the world and left a nation in mourning.
On Christmas Eve 1953, a passenger train derailed off the Tangiwai Bridge into the flooded river south of Mt. Ruapehu. Of the 285 aboard, only 134 survived, and our nation was plunged into mourning. What happened before, during and afterwards?
The North Island Main Trunk Railway—a primary transport artery between New Zealand’s capital, Wellington, and its largest city, Auckland—crosses the Whangaehu at a village called Tangiwai, “weeping waters” in Māori. The express reached the bridge at the lahar’s peak flow.
The worst railway disaster in New Zealand’s history occurred on Christmas Eve 1953, when the Wellington–Auckland night express plunged into the flooded Whangaehu River, just west of Tangiwai in the central North Island. Of the 285 people on board, 151 were killed.
Police officer and search volunteers. Cyril Ellis from Taihape had been forced to stop his car when he reached the road bridge, which was submerged. When he saw the light of the approaching locomotive he desperately ran towards it waving a torch in an attempt to warn the driver.
