New interpretation panels have been unveiled at the memorial site of New Zealand's worst rail disaster. Memorial unveiled to remember the life-saving actions of two men during 1953 tragedy. New Zealand Herald . 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. Tangiwai, as it is now simply known, is New Zealand's sixth most deadly disaster.

Responding to New Zealand's worst rail disaster 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. THE MEMORIAL: The Tangiwai Rail Disaster at Christmas 1953 on the Whangaehu River is commemorated each year. At 10.21 p.m. on Christmas Eve 1953 the Wellington–Auckland night express plunged into the flooded Whangaehu River at Tangiwai, 10 km west of Waiōuru in the central North Island. Of the 285 passengers and crew on board, 151 died in New Zealand’s worst railway accident. nzherald.co.nz. When he saw the light of the approaching locomotive he desperately ran towards it waving a torch in an attempt to warn the driver. Christmas Eve marks the 60th anniversary of the Tangiwai disaster, New Zealand's worst rail tragedy. The cause of the tragedy was a volcanic lahar from the Mt Ruapehu crater lake, which sent a huge wave of water, silt, boulders and … Memorial unveiled to remember the life-saving actions of two men during 1953 tragedy.

Of the 285 people on board, 151 were killed.

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