NORTH EXPRESS DELAYED.
SECOND TIME IN A WEEK.
BAULKS ON SCROGGY HILL.
For the second time within a week the Whangarei ejeprese has refused to go up what is known as Scroggy Hill, just past New Lynn station. The first occasion was on Friday last when the Prime Minister was a passenger, ger, and the second this morning. On Friday the train had to be cut in half. This morning a-banking engine came to its assistance. The express was due at Henderson at 9.22 a.m., but it was after ten o'clock before that station was reached. Friday morning's delay was caused principally by frost on the rails, but this morning, although "the load" was as usual, the engine refused to pull it up the incline. Until the engine-driver arrives back in Auckland this afternoon the Railway Department will not officially know the reason for the "delay.
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Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 113, 16 May 1927, Page 9
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146NORTH EXPRESS DELAYED. Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 113, 16 May 1927, Page 9
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