Portal:Trains/Anniversaries/December 24

1910 – The Hawes Junction train disaster occurs when a busy signalman forgets about a pair of bank engines waiting at his starting signal and he then allows two trains into the one block section.
1953 – In the Tangiwai disaster (memorial pictured), the Tangiwai Railway Bridge collapses as the overnight express train between Wellington and Auckland, New Zealand, passes over it; the bridge supports had been weakened by a lahar (a volcanic ash and debris filled flash flood) a few minutes before the train passed.

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