The Tangiwai 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 …

Tangiwai is a 2,696.66 km 2 (1,041.19 sq mi) [1] census area [2] and a small rural community in the Ruapehu District of the Manawatū-Whanganui region of New Zealand's North Island. It is …

2023年4月28日 · 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 …

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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 …

At 10.21 p.m. on Christmas Eve 1953 the Wellington–Auckland night express plunged into the flooded Whangaehu River at Tangiwai, 10 kilometres west of Waiouru in the central North …

2011年8月15日 · New Zealand's worst railway accident occurred at Tangiwai in the central North Island on 24 December 1953. Click through to see how events unfolded that day.

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. …

In the investigation that followed the 1953 tragedy, it was discovered that a lahar had substantially weakened the rail bridge at Tangiwai in 1925. A warning from amateur geologists that the …

On December 24, 1953, several cars on a train traveling in central New Zealand plunged into the flooded Whangaehu River, killing more than half the passengers onboard. The tragedy …