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    The Tangiwai train disaster was a deadly railway accident that occurred at 10:21 p.m. on 24 December 1953, when a railway bridge over the Whangaehu River...
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  • Tangiwai is a 2,696.66 km2 (1,041.19 sq mi) census area and a small rural community in the Ruapehu District of the Manawatū-Whanganui region of New Zealand's...
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  • The Tangiwai Shield is a Test cricket series played between the men's cricket teams of New Zealand and South Africa. It was launched in February 2024 during...
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    Tangiwai was a station on the North Island Main Trunk line, in the Ruapehu District of New Zealand. The station served the settlement of Tangiwai. The...
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    Publishing website "Tangiwai (2011)". IMDb. 14 August 2011. Retrieved 7 November 2012. "Death and the maiden: The tale of 'Tangiwai'". The New Zealand...
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    Candice. In 2011, McIver appeared in the television film Tangiwai, based on the 1953 Tangiwai rail disaster. In the film, she played Nerissa Love, the...
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  • The 2023–2025 ICC World Test Championship is an ongoing tournament of Test Cricket which is the third edition of the ICC World Test Championship. It started...
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    Lanka  West Indies 2015–16 2021–22 Benaud–Qadir Trophy  Australia  Pakistan 2021–22 2023–24 Tangiwai Shield  New Zealand  South Africa 2023-24 2023-24...
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    destructive lahars down the river. The 1953 lahar was the cause of the Tangiwai disaster, in which 151 people died. Even larger lahars occurred in 1862...
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    for Best Performance by a Supporting Actress, a General TV Award, for Tangiwai in 2011. In 2014, Harcourt was named NEXT Woman of the Year in the Arts...
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    once carved beautiful objects from local serpentine, which they called tangiwai, meaning "tears". The lapis atracius of the Romans, now known as verde...
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    depending on colour; and translucent bowenite, a type of serpentine, known as tangiwai. The collective term pounamu is preferred, as the other names in common...
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    outrush of water causing a large lahar. The most notable lahar caused the Tangiwai disaster on December 24, 1953, when 151 people aboard a Wellington to Auckland...
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  • as Regan Ames in Shortland Street in 2011, before making appearances in Tangiwai: A Love Story, Top of the Lake and 3 Mile Limit. In 2013, Mason starred...
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  • avoid the accident". 24 December 1953 – Tangiwai disaster – Tangiwai, North Island, New Zealand: the Tangiwai railway bridge over the Whangaehu River...
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    Vampires (2005), the precursor to the hit cult feature released in 2014, Tangiwai (2011), How To Meet Girls From A Distance (2012), and Waru (2017).[citation...
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    pyroclastic flow. A lahar is a volcanic mudflow or landslide. The 1953 Tangiwai disaster was caused by a lahar, as was the 1985 Armero tragedy in which...
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    day. The Tangiwai disaster on 24 December 1953, was the worst rail accident in New Zealand. The rail bridge over the Whangaehu river at Tangiwai had been...
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    hei-tiki are carved from pounamu which is either nephrite or bowenite (Māori: tangiwai). Pounamu is esteemed highly by Māori for its beauty, toughness and great...
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    wall on 24 December 1953 led to New Zealand's worst railway accident, the Tangiwai disaster. A lahar – a sudden surge of mud-laden water – swept down the...
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    debris and killing an estimated 23,000 people. A lahar caused New Zealand's Tangiwai disaster, where 151 people died after a Christmas Eve express train fell...
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    eventually collapse, causing a large lahar. Such a lahar resulted in the 1953 Tangiwai disaster when 151 people died as the lahar swept a railway bridge away...
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  • 2023–2025 ICC World Test Championship. The series was contested for the Tangiwai Shield. The trophy commemorated the tragic events of 1953, when 151 people...
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    2005. Seven kilometres to the west of Waiouru is the small settlement of Tangiwai, the site of New Zealand's worst railway disaster. On 24 December 1953...
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  • eruption 160+ Paluweh 3 Indonesia 1928 151 Mount Ruapehu ? New Zealand 1953 Tangiwai disaster 150 Tori-shima 3 Japan 1902 149 Dieng Volcanic Complex 1 Indonesia...
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  • Hobbs, Tangiwai – A Love Story Best Sound Design Chris Burt, Siege Dick Reade, Strongman – The Tragedy Phil Burton, Chris Hiles, Don Paulin, Tangiwai – A...
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  • casualties were due to the bridge collapse Whangaehu River Rail Bridge Tangiwai New Zealand 24 December 1953 Railway bridge Damaged by lahar minutes before...
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  • two-Test series in New Zealand, becoming the inaugural winners of the Tangiwai Shield and winning a Test series against South Africa for the first time...
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  • hoki". Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved 19 December 2023. "Tangiwai memorial dedication". Ministry for Culture and Heritage. 19 December 2023...
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  • Handley Page Victor strategic bomber. 1953 – Tangiwai disaster: In New Zealand's North Island, at Tangiwai, a railway bridge is damaged by a lahar and...
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