tangiwai disaster

Responding to tragedy

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  How police responded to the disasters, particularly Tangiwai, Wahine and Erebus

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• Page 1 - Police response to disasterHow police responded to the disasters, particularly Tangiwai, Wahine and Erebus

Royal Visit of 1953-54

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  For those New Zealanders old enough to have experienced it, the visit of the young Queen and her dashing husband, Prince Philip, to New Zealand in the summer of 1953-54 is a never-to-be forgotten event.

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• Page 4 – The Queen and Māori

  For many Māori the royal visit raised important issues about their place in New Zealand.

New Zealand disasters timeline

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  The disasters timeline and map give an overview of New Zealand's worst natural disasters, transport accidents, fires, mining accidents and other tragedies that have caused major loss of life.

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• Page 1 - New Zealand disasters timelineThe disasters timeline and map give an overview of New Zealand's worst natural disasters, transport accidents, fires, mining accidents and other tragedies that have caused major

Tangiwai disaster

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  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.

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• Page 2 – Wrong place at the wrong time

  The unfortunate sequence of events that led to the Tangiwai disaster

• Page 3 – Search and rescue

  How locals and police responded to New Zealand's worst railway disaster

• Page 4 – Dealing with the dead

  Identifying victims is a major task following any mass tragedy. A number of circumstances made this process particularly difficult at Tangiwai.

• Page 5 – Death at Tangiwai: a class affair

  Survival at Tangiwai depended on which class of carriage you were travelling in.

• Page 6 – Further information

  Recommended links and books relating to the Tangiwai Disaster