RAILWAY ACCIDENT.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 52, 25 November 1907, Page 4

RAILWAY ACCIDENT.

CARRIAGES LEAVE THE LINE AT. NGAHAURANGA, ' .; . :

There woro a fow minutes', sorious excite* ■ ment for the passengers who travelled to; ,'Wellington from tho Lower H«tt by tho 'train, which left the latter station shortly after 6 p.m. on Saturday., Tho trains was , steaming at a slowing speed into the siding at Ngahauranga (where another train was waiting to pass), when tho third carriage from tho end left the rails in taking tho point and dragged tho other two -after it. The dorailed carriages managed to keep tho perpendicular, and jolted along the sleepers for a distance of somo fifteen.to twenty, yards beforo tho train was brought to a . standstill in :i manner highly disconcerting'.; .to the passengers, particularly those.in tho' . carriages that were making heavy weather along a track of their own. . ■ When tho train pulled ' lip ono'.of. the- ~.. wheels of one of tho carriages was resting' ; botweon tho . sleepers on tho bridge -'that - spans the Ngahauranga Stream near the;station. There was considerable excitementamong tho passengers owing to the .Ulifer-' .- tninty as to what was going to happen JUjxtj,' - and one lady fainted, but nobody .suffered' .: any injury through, the mishap. ' '