WAGGONS DERAILED.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 16 September 1927, Page 5

WAGGONS DERAILED.

ACCIDENT ON MAIN LINE. NO ONE INJURED. (BY TELEGRAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION.) AUCKLAND, Sept. 15. When passing Mahi.a station between Takanini and Manurewa at 7.15 tonight, five waggons attached to a mixed Roods and passenger train from Frankton Junction were derailed. The first waggon to leave the, line was the seventeenth, from the engine, and then four more waggons immediately behind it were derailed. Meagre particulars are to hand, but it is understood that the damage is not very extensive. No passenger carriages were • derailed, and no one was injured. The derailment being on the mam line, all traffic is interrupted. The Limited express, which left Auckland for Wellington at 7.15 was 'held up at Manurewa. and the ordinary Main Trunk express, to have left Auckland at 7.45. was held at the Auckland station. . . In order to cope with the suburban traffic, the Railway Department lias instituted a motor car .service between Papakura and Manurewa, a distance of four miles. It is expected that the line will be cleared By one o’clock in the morning.