MISHAP TO EXPRESS

Evening Star, Issue 19328, 14 August 1926, Page 6

MISHAP TO EXPRESS

DERAILiEHT HEAR HINDS CARRIAGE AXLE BREAKS SUBSTITUTE TRAIN TO INVERCARGILL Tlirough an axle of tlie front carriage of the Christchurch-Invercargill express breaking when the train was about one mile north of Hinds the express will reach Dunedin three or four hours after schedule time—4.lß p.m. The front carriage was derailed and dragged about 200yds before the train was stopped. Nobody is reported hurt, though passengers in the carriage which left the track must hare been severely shaken. On account of the Otago v. Southland football match, the departure time for the through express had been put back fifteen minutes—to 4.55 p.m. As the train will not arrive here till uijjJit, the Railway Department has arranged for a substitute train to leave Dunedin for Invercargill at the stated time, and for the express to follow tlirough. A SEVERE JOLTING QUARTER MILE RUN OFF RAILS [Per United Press Association.] ASHBURTON, August 14. The south-bound Clmstchurch-Inver-cargiil express met with a mishap just south of Windermere, ten miles from Ashburton, the_ carriage next' the engine being derailed owing to the breaking of the back axle box - . The rear wheels came off the line, and the train continued for a quarter of a mile, the wheels ploughing up the permanent way. 'The passengers sustained a severe jolting, but none were injured. The engine continued on with the disabled car to lliuds, 2J miles away. The remainder of the fourteen cars, all filled with returning racegoers, were left standing at the scene. The permanent way was not damaged beyond a disturbance of the ballast.