New Zealand - Railway accident - Ten animals were killed in the Thorndon station yard, Wellington, when an inward-bound suburban train collided with a sheep-train which was being shunted. - Four trucks were derailed and two of them were completely smashed. The picture shows sheep being rounded up after the accident. - 21/2/1929 - Unknown Photographer - Originally published in "The Auckland Weekly News" #336129 - Thorndon railway station in Wellington, New Zealand was opened in 1885 as the southern terminus of the Wellington and Manawatu Railway Company’s Wellington-Manawatu Line. - This line is now part of the Kapiti section of the North Island Main Trunk.