TRAMWAY STOPPAGE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18551, 8 November 1923, Page 8

TRAMWAY STOPPAGE.

HALF-HOUR'S CONGESTION.

A FIVE O'CLOCK INCIDENT.

The tramway services to the southern , and eastern suburbs were seriously dislo- j cated during, the 5 o'clock "rush" period yesterday as the result of the derailment of an Onehunga car at the top of Symonda Street.

. The mishap occurred at 5.20 p.m., just as the augmented "rush" hour trams were conveying large numbers of city workers to their homes in the suburbs. The car left the line as it was going round the bend into Khyber Pass Road, and in a short space of time cars had ome to a stop behind it in a long lino extending past the Grafton Bridge and for some distance along Kararagahape Road. Seldom, in fact, has such an imposing array of trams been held up in this manner at one particular spot. The tramway department's employees quickly set to work to return the dislodged car to the track. In the meantime, numbers of cars were diverted to ether routes and every attempt made to ■* relieve the congestion. The car which had caused the trouble was restored to the line about 5.50 p.m., when the service was resumed. The occurrence imposed inconvenience on numbers of dwellers in the Dominion Road, Mount Eden, Eingsland, Epsom, Onebunga, Great South Road slid Victoria Avenue districts. ! <.