SLIP IN THE GORGE
TROUBLE NOT OVER
O C. PALMERSTON N., This Day. It is stated that the railway service through the Manawatu Gorge is likely to be dislocated for a day or two yet as a result of the creeping slip which interrupted traffic on Sunday. Sluicing has been adopted to carry the loose rubble down into the river. Searchlights are used to enable work to go on throughout the night and two-way radio communication is also operating. Passenger trains are being run through the Gorge empty and the passengers taken past the slip by road. The slip is between the two big tunnels about three-quarters of a mile from the Palmerston North end of the Gorge, where similar trouble was experienced in 1927 and rail traffic was dislocated for a number of days.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19450905.2.93
Bibliographic details
Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 57, 5 September 1945, Page 8
Word Count
135SLIP IN THE GORGE Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 57, 5 September 1945, Page 8
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Evening Post. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.