TRAIN DELAYED
SHUNTING ENGINE JUMPS
POINTS
(By Telegraph—Press' Association.)
WANGANUI, June 2.
The main railway line at Eastown (Aramoho) wgs blocked for about five hours on Saturday afternoon through a shunting:engine jumping' the points. The mishap occurred half ah hour before the New Plymouth express to Wellington was due, and the train was held at Aramdho station while thevpassengers walked across the bridge and joined a special train;■'which had arrived from Palmers'ton North for a football match. The special then took up the running of the express, leaving two and a half hours late. Meanwhile a temperorary trick was laid round the engine, but the express from Wellington was delayed over two hours until a new track could be completed. I
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Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 129, 3 June 1935, Page 6
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121TRAIN DELAYED Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 129, 3 June 1935, Page 6
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