WAGGONS IN MIXED TRAIN ARE DERAILED NEAR AUCKLAND
LINE BLOCKER, (Per Press Association). , AUCKLAND. Last Night. When passing the Mahla station between Takanini and Manurewa at 7.15 to-night five wagons attached to, the mixed goods and passenger train from Frankton Junction w>orc derailed. The first wagon to leave the line was the seventeenth from the engine and then four more wagons immediately behind it were derailed. Meagre particulars are to hand but it is understood the damage is not very extensive. No passenger carriages were derailed and no one was injured. The derailment being on the main line ail traffic is interrupted. The Limited express which left Auckland for Wellington at 7.15 was held up at Manurcwa and the ordinary Main Trunk express to have left Auckland at 7.45 was held at Auckland station. In order to cope with the suburban traffic the Railway Department instituted a motor car service between Papakura and Manurcwa, a distance of four miles.
It is expected the line will he cleared by one o'clock in the morning.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LII, Issue 3615, 16 September 1927, Page 7
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173WAGGONS IN MIXED TRAIN ARE DERAILED NEAR AUCKLAND Manawatu Times, Volume LII, Issue 3615, 16 September 1927, Page 7
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