Slip Stops Train In Manawatu Gorge
[Special to “Northern Advocate ”] PALMERSTON N„ This Day. When a special freight train ran into a slip in the Manawatu Gorge last night the line was completely blocked, and it is unlikely that it will be cleared until Monday. The slip came down at the mouth of.a long tunnel. The line from Woodville takes a right-hand curve through a cutting over a bridge, and then over another bridge before entering the tunnel. The driver of the engine (Mr H. A. Orman) would have little warning of the slip. The engine was brought to’ a standstill, howevei’, against the slip, and standing on a short pridge just leading into the tunnel. Two sheep trucks directly behind the engine were crushed by the weight of those following, the buffers at each end being bent in. The slip extends for the best paid of a hundred yards up a steep face immediately above the mouth of the tunnel. Ari’angements have been made for transhipping passenger traffic between Palmerston North and Woodville by road.
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Northern Advocate, 24 February 1940, Page 9
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