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PASSENGER STOPS TRAIN

EMERGENCY BRAKE APPLIED DELAY TO EXCURSIONISTS [by telecuaph OWN correspondent] WANGANUI, Sunday While the Wanganui-Wellington excursion train, consisting of 16 fullyladen cars, a van and three engines, was negotiating the grade at Okoia, six miles from Wanganui, on Saturday morning, a passenger applied the emergency brake in one of tho cars. As the train came to an abrupt stop, the drivers of the engines, two of which were pulling the train and one behind, opened the throttles, but the combined efforts' of the three large locomotives had only the effect of severely damaging tho couplings, buffers and undercarriages of two of tho cars. The train was delayed for an hour and the two cars had to be changed at Marton.

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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22517, 7 September 1936, Page 8

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PASSENGER STOPS TRAIN New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22517, 7 September 1936, Page 8

PASSENGER STOPS TRAIN New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22517, 7 September 1936, Page 8