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The Tangiwai disaster was the worst rail accident in New Zealand history. It occurred on December 24, 1953 when the overnight express train between Wellington and Auckland passed over the Tangiwai Railway Bridge. The bridge, which had just minutes earlier been weakened by a lahar from Mount Ruapehu, collapsed sending the train into the
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