TasRail train collides with cattle herd

Nick Clark
Updated May 5 2021 - 11:28am, first published 10:30am
HORRIFIC: A TasRail train collided with a herd of heifers on Friday. Photo: Shutterstock
HORRIFIC: A TasRail train collided with a herd of heifers on Friday. Photo: Shutterstock

A collision between a train and a herd of cattle in Tasmania's northern Midlands on Friday resulted in the instant death or euthanising of 28 pregnant dairy heifers, a dairy farmer says.

Nick Clark

Nick Clark

Journalist

I am the Supreme and Magistrates Court reporter for the Examiner for the past 18 months. My journalism career has clicked over 30 years and encompasses four different spells at Tasmanian newspapers.

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