TRAIN HELD UP
WASH-OUT AT RAKAIA
•(P.A.) CHRISTCHURCH, This Day;. ...One of the. most serious dislocations "'" to rail traffic for some years occurred at Rakaia today, when flood waters across.the northern approach '■;'t6'the railway'bridge caused consider- ' * able damage Ihrougrf scouring. No . trains crossed the bridge up till early .this afternoon.'' • - - - £ * /Road traffic lwasr also interrupted, . 'to-ut the delay was not as serious as *'"that on the railway. Rail passengers . were transhipped by motor vehicles over the affected portion. . ■ At midday four chains, of the ap- . '-proach at the railway bridge were ".; £cpured out, and. there was no 'indication when trains would be able to pass.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 100, 24 October 1942, Page 8
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105TRAIN HELD UP Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 100, 24 October 1942, Page 8
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