TRAINS HELD UP.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 19975, 9 July 1930, Page 13

TRAINS HELD UP.

♦ BROKEN 'RAIL IN TUNNEL^ % FERRY PASSENGERS DECAYED. Something of the lot of train pasaetftfars.iu -Northern Europe, who, aouorqing to' reports, are occasionally -in 'for days when their tram intq a snow-rdrift/was the experi-. 1 %Ce, of passengers who landed from * Wahine at Lyttelton -yesterday and entrained on' tjie ferry vttaift.. F,or an hour and ten minutes 1 iin the, unheated carriages in SJae- hardest frosts of the. year Strain was finally sent on its th*<Jity. >§ji»e-- of• the , hold-up was a Hd rigbt in the. middle of the "tW-Hil was discovered bv the , through ana in- '• TOtme) each morning before allowed to commence ' the end of. the ' some distance, and • : • ■ probably' have oc-.uQrifia-the day, had it not been ,~He had to walk to the „;' tunnel again and then oifrnwg to effect repairs. The completed shortly before and'the work-gang were "flpiwel at a few. minutes Ipq hour. , , Ig' the .'meantime, the whole of the ft" n the -Lyttelton.line had been jw f standstill. Two goods trains and •1". «JP^ SCI Ig®r .' train were detained at V. Camfe-hnrch and a passenger train '? r «ni£the ferry- train were held up at tpttelton. ' Jfa*U- to' the Rescue. V of passengers on the' becoming impatient at the delay, devised other means. ;no doubt by the tine, frosty ipjnettung, set out on foot to Sumner to '■* PWBWct "with' the' tram service there; Jf/'-fjpcal taxis were at a.premium, and i'i ■ ff®«-flWde the-trip over the hill fully I A large number of passengers I'.th© telephone .booth on the and , car-owning relatives , and Were summoned to the rescue, time there was a large queue "the booth, each member of »6s' anxiously awaiting his or. 0 to-'invest threepence in send,necessary S.O.S. Many people te telephone to • engage taxis ie- City, : and.. one- popular count over quite a lfirge part ox in procession. ' irat. train through'the tunnel lipasseuger train, which should Tived at .6:43. It arrived at 1 brought also the passengers, watersiders, who would in the pcourso have travelled by the. train The train which should, ft Lyttelton at ,6.49 was linked ferry train, .and the combined rftv t'or Christchurch at 8-11, in addition to the remnant of Wongrtrs, 'those who would have J to Christchurch by trains at 6.49 and 7.21. Many tacirl other workers, who wcmla half-day's work as« a---res l '"*L ov.* returned home The o-tii •om Lyttelton was only a few ; late jn leaving. Work on the »nt was further ta some bv the late arrival .of frozen 14 «oods trnins. B'.mne odocfc lace was again back to norm J.