SHUNTING MISHAP.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 23, 24 December 1938, Page 9

SHUNTING MISHAP.

DAMAGE TO CARRIAGE. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, Dec. 23. A |ie\v second-class carriage which hacl only just been delivered from the Qlahtlbu Railway Workshops was considerably damaged during shunting operations to-night, when it ran thropgli a fence of the Auckland sta tipn yard and mounted tile footpath in Reach Road. In its pprirsp it ripped a concrete and steel buffer stop at' the end of the shunting line right nut and then smashed cleanly through the tepee. The edge of the footpath, ivhjcli has a step down jnto the yard, was broken into pieces and the pavement itself was torn up for a distance of several yards. Thp carriage stopped wlien it was 15 feet acrpss the footpath. The damage to the carriage was qppfined to the end winch had struck the buffer stop. The vestibule was crushed back on to the seating epmpartment, the steel roifs of the envelope being beat into a spmi-circplar shape. and the undercarriage was also damaged. After freeing the wheels pf obstacles flip carriage was pulled hack into the station yards. Another carriage wjlich ivas coupled to the damaged one when the mishap occurred was rot a beefed.