MANAWATU GORGE MISHAP
Repair Crane Blocks Line
Dominion Special Service. Palmerston North, January 111.
A temporary blockage of the railway line through the Manawatu Gorge was caused when, at!) o’clock this morning, a railway crane being used in the repairing of a small bridge in the gorge about a mile from the Woodville end slipped back into a hole left through the taking up of several sleepers. A relief crane was sent from Wellington and reached the bridge at 2.30 p.m. Working throughout: the afternoon, the men were able (o place the crane, which weighed 35 lons, back on the line, but as the front bogie-, had become detached, it could not be moved until several hours later. No traffic was held up-
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Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 98, 20 January 1936, Page 10
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