TRAIN DERAILED

Feilding Star, Volume 8, Issue 2399, 8 April 1931, Page 5

TRAIN DERAILED

RACEHORSES INYOLYED MTSHAP AT WHANGAM A R 1 NO TWO WAGONS LEAVE THE LINE (Per Press Association). Auckland, April 8. Racehorses who had competed at Luo El let's! ie Easter meeting were involved in a train derailment, at Whungania tino tit 10 o'clock yesterday morning. Ten "horses for the Waikato were ;.n flte train, and two animals eonsigned to Matamata, were in a. G wagon, which left the rails. Tile wagon remained upright and the horses did not, suffer any tiling worse than a fright. • The accident occurred, to the 7 a.m. A t tri-da ltd-Erankton mixed train when it was at the south end of W.hangamerino station- It is understood that a, spring on the engine slipped and the consequent swayig caused a op wagon to leave the rails and take Lite horsebox with it. The ‘rain was delayed for two hours. The Auckland-East Coast express, which left at 9.8 a.m., was also delayed for an hour on the run. ano i/.to Rotorua express, which left, al 10.15 a.lit and held up Ini' ball an hour at a wayside station. lit ettn. ..sequence other trains were delayed on che Mcrror-Frankton section. 11 was not till noon that the line war reported to l’e clear. N<; damage was done to tile por-