Fourth Derailment In Five Days
(New Zealand Press Association*
WELLINGTON, August 21.
Main trunk railway passenger services were cut for more than 15 hours by a derailment near Taihape on Saturday.
It was the fourth derailment on the line since Tuesday night. The line was closed from 2.10 a.m., when a north-bound goods train dragged a derailed waggon five miles, causing severe damage to sleepers and some sections of the line. It was opened at 5.25 p.m. subject to a speed limit of 15 m.p.h. over the damaged section.
More than 100 passengers on three packed AucklandWellington expresses were carried in 27 buses and trucks. They dropped passengers at stations along the line, and the last bus arrived in Wellington at 2 p.m. The Cook Strait ferry Aramoana made a special trip to Picton just after 2 p.m. with 68 passengers from the expresses. Earlier a special bus was used to pick up passengers for the Aranui from stations south of the derailment.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31144, 22 August 1966, Page 1
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