TRUCKS DERAILED
EXPRESSES DELAYED. MEAGRE DETAILS. AUCKLAND, This Day. When passing Mahia station, between Takanini and Manurewa, at 7.15 o’clock last night, five waggons attached to a mixed goods and passenger train from Frankton Junction were derailed. The first waggon to leave the line was the seventeenth from the engine, and then four more waggons 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 w T as injured. The derailment being on the main line, all traffic was interrupted. The limited express, which left Auckland for Wellington at 7.15 was held up at Manurewa, 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 Manurewa, a distance of four miles. It is expected the line will be cleared by one o’clock this morning.—Press Assn.
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Northern Advocate, 16 September 1927, Page 8
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