The incident happened at a vintage railway station in southern Auckland just before 4pm.
Investigation of the causes of the explosion of the locomotive engine "Richmond," near Reading, Pa., on the 2d Sept. 1844, made at the request of Messrs. Norris Brothers. by Dion Lardner ..
In 1948, a devastating boiler explosion in Chillicothe, Ohio turned a steam locomotive into a twisted mass of metal and marked a symbolic end to steam’s dominance in American rail. Though not the ...