MAIL TRAIN HOLD-UP

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIX, Issue 283, 14 November 1929, Page 6

MAIL TRAIN HOLD-UP

LATE ARRIVAL IN HASTINGS. BALLAST TRUCKS DERAILED. The Wellington mail train, with the Jamboree Scout boys on board, arrived in Hastings last evening at 5.58 p.m., or an hour and twenty minutes later than schedule time. The cause of tho dela.v was that the mail was held up at Kopua, a station a few miles south of Wai pukurau. It pppears that a ballast train. r>s depositing shingle on Iho lino een Waipukurau and Kopua, when the shingle released from one of the trucks come out with a rush, forming such a bulky heap on the rails that tho three succeed:i

trucks, forming the tail of the ballast train, were unable to negotiate the accumulation of shingle and the.\ were derailed. The waggons were ultimately restored to the rails, at the cost of much labour, enabling the mail train, after its considerable delay, to proceed unon its way.