A TRAIN DERAILED.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 20 September 1928, Page 7

A TRAIN DERAILED.

FRONT AND REARCAES [ ARE SOON COUPLED UR AXLE BOX STRIKES OLD LINE i AUCKLAND, -Last Night. ■ Just as the Opua-Auckland express was entering Tauiaroa station on its southward mu this afternoon, the axle box of the fifth carriage struck an old set of rails. ; The fifth and sixth passenger cars ■ were derailed, but no one .-was; injured. /. The passengers in . these carriages; were alarmed when they commenced tobump and sway violently, just after the, express, then running at a slow and diminishing! speed, had passed the first; set %of points on approaching Tauraroaj station, about 17 miles south ofj Whangarei. Under the pulling power: of the engine, the oscillation increased! :until, the couplings'in front of the;:fifth| carriage snapped and with the follow-! ing car, it came to rest at an angle .to the; rest of the tmin, roughly on tho| line of the old branch track. \ Beyond a severe jolting, the . pas-f sOngers Auffered s no injury?and..;the ear-; r riages remained upright. - A consider-! able amount of luggage .was' thrown from the net racks, as the cars bumped, over the sleepers ‘and minor damage was done to the main line. j The derailed carriages wore in the whore f,they were and by the use of the yard .loop lines, the rear end of The severed train was connected ■) up with .the fore part and after a, little over half an. hour’s delay, the express continued its run to Auckland. I