Further information - Tangiwai railway disaster

This web feature was written by Steve Watters and Neill Atkinson and produced by the NZHistory.net.nz team.

Links 

• Biographies from the online Dictionary of New Zealand biography: William Appleton; Henry James Hopkins
• North Island main trunk line (NZHistory.net.nz)
• Royal visit of 1953–54 (NZHistory.net.nz)
• Ruapehu and the Tangiwai disaster (Te Ara)
• The Tangiwai Memorial lists the names of all those killed (MCH website)
• The Tangiwai tragedy from An encyclopedia of New Zealand 1966
• Tangiwai disaster page on the Christchurch City Libraries site
• Film of 2007 lahar at Tangiwai 
• Mount Ruapehu is an Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences resource on the volcano, and it includes information about the Tangiwai disaster.
• Tangiwai and lahars – information from the Volcano World site 

Books and articles

• Kevin Boon, The Tangiwai rail disaster, Nelson Price Milburn, Petone, 1990
• Geoff Conly & Graham Stewart, On the track: Tangiwai and other railway accidents, rev. edn, Grantham House, Wellington, 1991
• Evening Post, 26–28 December 1953
• Bruce Morris, Darkest days, 1st rev. edn, Wilson & Horton, Auckland, 1987
• New Zealand Railways, Tangiwai railway disaster: Report of board of inquiry, Government Printer, Wellington, 1954