Limited Express Delayed
(Spec.) AUCKLAND, This Day. The departure of the Limited express for Wellington last night was delayed for 15 minutes as a result of the minor derailment of a suburban passenger train on the Auckland-Westfield Junction deviation. The accident occurred at about 5.4 C p.m. when a trailing bogey of the second carriage of a train bound for Papakura left (lie tine about 20a yards on the city side of Tamaki Station. A breakdown crane was despatched from the city to clear the line. Delay was experienced in replacing the 'damaged carriage on the track owing to the fact that the crane had to Ite kept clear of other trains passing the poini of accident on the downward line. .The line was eventually cleared toward midnight.
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Northern Advocate, 15 March 1944, Page 2
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