DERAILED TRUCKS WILL BE SHIFTED DURING WEEK-END
i Work will be started tomorrow on the removal of the 24 coal trucks which were derailed near Blackball on Monday afternoon. A work-train With a crane will leave Greymouth at about 6 o’clock tomorrow morning and the damaged wagons, which were placed to one side of the track to allow the route to be re-opened, will be loaded on to U.B. timber wagons for transport to the Addington workshops. It is expected that it will take three days to remove all the trucks. Some of them were damaged beyond repair, though various parts will be available for salvage. Some trucks will be ready for use again within a week or so, it is expected. The first trucks to be removed will be those which fell from the railway embankment to the road below. Though these are not blocking the road, they, nevertheless, present a hazard. When the trucks have been removed, a decision will be made concerning the future of the 150 tons of Blackball slack coal strewn over the area, but present indications are that the whole consignment is beyond salvage.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 8 October 1948, Page 4
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