MORE TRAIN DELAY
SHUNTING MISHAP AT
PETONE
A derailment occurred in the Petone shunting yard at 7.35 a.m. today, blocking the main line, and resulting in the delay of suburban trains. As a long rake of wagons was being shunted one went off the line at points in the yard and drew a number of other wagons with it. The end of the long rake projected on to the outward main line, blocking traffics It was necessary to bring an engine round the blockage and use the open main track both ways while the blocked line was being cleared. Various suburban trains were delayed from 9 to 16 minutes. The Melling train did not run owing, to the blockage, and passengers on the Waterloo train due at Wellington at 8.20 were brought in on the train due at 8.45, which arrived at 9.4 a.m.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 22, 27 January 1943, Page 4
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144MORE TRAIN DELAY Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 22, 27 January 1943, Page 4
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