ALMOST NORMAL.
MAIN TRUNK TRAINS.
REPAIRING FLOOD DAMAGE.
PART OF LINE STILL WEAK.
Conditions under which the Main Trunk services are run are now rapidly approaching the normal again. So rapid has the work of restoration been near Taumarunui, after the storm last week, that if things go well, the ordinary schedule should obtain next week.
Great care has still to be taken over one portion of the line near Kakahi, which is still weak. The heavy engines necessary on the Main Trunk cannot yet be used "on this one stretch. Up until to-day the carriages have been propelled over it, but now the fillings have consolidated enough for a light engine to be used. Thus the carriages are connected between two heavy engines by means of a lighter engine^
The Limited express still arrives late in Auckland, but 5 less late daily. It should arrive at 9.40 a.m. Yesterdayit arrived at 12.40; to-day the time was 12.5.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 74, 29 March 1933, Page 5
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