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NZ disasters (Tangiwai train disaster (On Christmas eve... (Disaster…

- - - - A train ride gone wrong
        
        3 p.m., 24 Dec – Train leaves Wellington for Auckland
        
        8.02 p.m. – Rim of Ruapehu’s crater lake gives way, releasing the lahar
        
        10.09 p.m. – Train leaves Waiōuru railway station
        
        10.10 - 10.15 p.m. – Lahar reaches bridge and washes away pier 4
        
        10.20 p.m. – Train passes through Tangiwai railway station
        
        10.21 p.m. – Train crosses bridge, which collapses
        
        10.30 p.m. – Car Z falls into river and is swept downstream
        
        10.35 p.m. – Lahar flow has substantially subsided
        
        Midnight – Survivors start arriving at Waiouru Camp Hospital
        
        4 a.m., 25 Dec – Recovered bodies start to arrive at hospital
        
        Morning of 25 Dec – PM Holland rushes to Waiōuru and announces tragedy via radio