Axle of Carriage Breaks
ACCIDENT TO SUBURBAN TRAIN Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, Last Night. Au axle of one of tho carriages on to-day’s 5.9 j>.m. Welliugton-Waterioo train, with more thun 3UO passengers aboard, broke utter leaving tho main lino to take the branch to Waterloo. No one was injured. The carriage was tho third from the engine. There were six behind it and it was carried along tho rails by the combined weight of the engine and carriages in frqnt and rear, smashing a number of sleepers and finally coming to rest 250 ft. from where tho axle broke, its front end resting on the brink of a culvert bridging a small stream ten feet below. Tho only damago to the carriage bodywork was to tho three front floorboards, which were ripped up for a yard.
Thcro was a lull complement of passengers (72) in tho carriage concerned. Tho train had travelled 50 yards from tho signal post near the junction of tho llutt and Waterloo lines w’lien tho mishap occurred and its spcod would not have been more than 10 miles an hour.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 211, 7 September 1938, Page 4
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184Axle of Carriage Breaks Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 211, 7 September 1938, Page 4
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