HILLSIDE MOVING TOWARDS SEA
Railwaymen’s Check On Line _ (New Zealand Press Association) DUNEDIN, June 26. A seven-mile stretch of main trunk railway track between Evansdale and Puketaraki is being checked carefully for movement before each passenger train passes across it. The district railways engineer (Mr G. Shrimpton) said that the whole of the hillside in the area was moving slowly—almost imperceptibly—towards the sea. Railway gangs each day pack up the track with ballast to offset the gradual slumping of the ground in six different places. Mr Shrimpton said there was no danger whatever of derailments. Daily attention to the trouble spots enabled the department to keep trains running safely. Foot patrols inspected the line before a passenger train passed over it and the 15 m.p.h. speed restriction imposed for this stretch was in effect merely an additional precaution.
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Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28314, 27 June 1957, Page 8
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138HILLSIDE MOVING TOWARDS SEA Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28314, 27 June 1957, Page 8
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